The Navacerrada Pass (
Spanish: ''Puerto de Navacerrada''; ) is a mountain pass in the
Guadarrama Mountains, in the centre of the
Iberian Peninsula.
In 1788, it replaced the
Fuenfría Pass as mountain pass in the route crossing the Sierra de Guadarrama connecting the Spanish cities of
Madrid and
Segovia.
The
saddle point
In mathematics, a saddle point or minimax point is a point on the surface of the graph of a function where the slopes (derivatives) in orthogonal directions are all zero (a critical point), but which is not a local extremum of the function ...
lies at 1,858 metres over sea level.
It is located in the border between the
province of Segovia and the
Community of Madrid. The route consists of the road in the Madrilenian side and the in the segovian side. As of 2019, several of the Alpine buildings erected in the surroundings are derelict.
See also
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C-9 (Cercanías Madrid)
Line C-9, formerly known as the Guadarrama Electric Railway ( es, Ferrocarril Eléctrico del Guadarrama), is a narrow-gauge mountain railway incorporated into Madrid's Cercanías commuter rail network. The line is operated by Renfe Operadora an ...
References
Mountain passes of Spain
Sierra de Guadarrama
Mountain passes of the Sistema Central
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