Distance: 345km
North loop takes you over the range of the mountains which separates shoreline Costa del Sol from Spanish Meseta Central. This range, called Cordillera Penibetica, was formed in Tertiary Era from Thetys and includes almost all independent mountains close to the shoreline, like Serrania de Ronda, Montes de Malaga and Sierra Nevada, and with its highest peaks in all of the peninsula: Pico Veleta and Mulhacen.