Costa Blanca Walks Vol 2 East - southern Spain - Europe

• Location
• Description
• Contents
• Introduction
• Sample Route
• Maps
• Updates
• Further Reading

1:50,000 Mapas Militar

Jativa 29-31 (795)

Alcoy 29-32 (821)

Benisa 30-32 (822)

Villajoyosa 29-33 (847)

Altea 30-33 (848)

1:25,000 M.O.P.U.

796 I Gandia Sheets III – IV

795 Jativa Sheets I – IV

822 Benisa Sheets I – III

823 Javea Sheets I & III

847 Villajoyosa Sheets II & IV

821 Alcoy Sheets I – IV

848 Altea Sheets I – III

Notes on the maps
The official Mapas Militar are at 1:50,000, the nearest thing to the UK Ordnance Survey maps. The detail and printing, however, are far from OS standard, and buying a new edition does not guarantee an updated map. I find that it pays to keep old maps. They are often more reliable, as the editor of the series is capricious, to say the least, in removing information from new editions. It also takes a very long time before new roads are shown on the maps, and the vast network of forestry and rural roads remains unmarked. There are also the 1:25,000 Ministry of Public Works (M.O.P.U.) maps, produced by the Institutio Georgrafico Nacional, who produce the Mapas Militar. These maps are still based on the old 1:50,000 grid system, with four sheets to the area covered. The printing is better and new roads are shown (still not the rural and forestry), but on some sheets important detail is missing which appeared on old smaller-scale maps. The contours and the spot heights on some sheets of Mapas Militar are questionable.