Do you like rafting and want to practice it in all parts of Spain? In this article you will discover the best places in the country to do it. Spain is a country that offers a wide variety of places to practice rafting, and also offers many places where the offer is extremely professional and is prepared to offer the highest standards of quality in this regard. In addition, all the complementary offer that is generated around adventure sports such as rafting makes the experience you can live in any of these places unique and complete.
Gastronomy, culture, nature, sport and much more, all of this comes together in rafting tourism, a tourism that will also allow you to have the most fun practicing the aquatic activity that you like the most: rafting down rivers. The centre of the Peninsula is an ideal place to practice rafting in places like Río Cabriel. This location, which is located between Valencia and Madrid, becomes the ideal place to disconnect from the city and to make multiple getaways. Its natural beauty is simply wonderful.
In Catalonia you will find one of the best places to practice rafting, the beautiful area of Noguera Pallaresa, in the province of Lleida and with towns like Sort that make rafting (and the lottery, don't forget) their economic engine, so now you know, in addition to sailing you should try your luck. It has very famous lengths and the river is considered one of the best rivers in all of Europe for rafting.
Not far from Catalonia, in the Aragon region, you will find in the Pyrenees of Huesca more than interesting places where you can put on your life jacket and jump into the river, specifically in places like Gallego or Ara, in the Ordesa National Park, and this being one of the most “morbid” places to practice rafting when the water is good, where you will find unique spaces for rafting. But if you want to discover one of the most famous in all of Spain, you have to go to the Ésera.
Looking north, if you look towards Galician lands, there are different places where you can go rafting, although the Miño River is extremely notable, a river that has an interesting peculiarity for rafting practitioners like you: in the rest of the Spanish rivers you should be concerned about there being enough flow to practice good rafting, in this one it is the opposite, the excess flow that it can have sometimes can eliminate the descents, leaving only a very deep river.
Still in the north, and now looking towards the Cantabrian coast, we must mention the Alto Ebro. This place is incredible both for its natural beauty and for its level II and III quality for rafting. And looking towards the south, you can find good spots in, for example, the Alto Guadalquivir or the Genil River, among others.
Have you ever tried rafting? Would you like to? What do you like most about this sport?
