Caminito del Rey

El Caminito del Rey (English: The King's pathway) is a walkway, now fallen into disrepair, pinned along the steep walls of a narrow gorge in El Chorro, near Álora in Málaga, Spain.

In 1901 it was obvious that the workers of the Chorro Falls and Gaitanejo Falls needed a walkway to cross between the falls, to provide transport of materials, vigilance and maintenance of the channel. Construction of the walkway lasted four years. It was finished in 1905.

The walkway has now gone many years without maintenance, and is in a highly deteriorated and dangerous state.

It is one meter in width, and has over a 700 feet fall. Nearly all of the path has no handrail.

Some parts of the walkway have completely collapsed and have been replaced by a beam and a metallic wire on the wall. Many people have lost their lives on the walkway in recent years.

The regional government of Andalusia budgeted for 2006 a restoration plan^[1] estimated at € 7 million.