Benavente › Valcabado del Páramo

📈 Elevation Profile

🗺️ Stage Map

📖 Stage Description

From Benavente, the Via de la Plata crosses El Páramo Leonés, the great limestone plateau north of Zamora. The landscape is stark, almost lunar: vast stretches of ochre earth, a few grey-stone villages, and the wind as your only companion.

Valcabado del Páramo, a modest and welcoming village, marks the end of the day. Its rural guesthouse is warm and inviting, and the local cuisine — cocido maragato, cordero asado — is excellent.

🌄 Walking Conditions

Sun exposure and terrain type over 30,3 km

Ensoleillement

Terrain

⏱️ Duration estimée pour vous

Estimez votre temps de marche selon votre profil — règle de Naismith.

📍 Villages and Waypoints

• 0km

  Benavente 732m Start

  Starting point.

  💧 Water🛒 Shops
• 30.3km

  Valcabado del Páramo 835m End

  Village on the Páramo. Rural guesthouse, bar-restaurant.

  💧 Water🏕️ Rural guesthouse🛒 Bar

⚠️ Practical Information

• 🌞 The Páramo is very exposed — sun cream and a hat are essential
• 💧 Water is scarce — stock up in Benavente before you leave
• 🌬️ Wind is often strong across the plateau
• Supplies
  Valcabado del Páramo km 30.3 — Bar-restaurant