Las Brenas Loop
Distance: 21.66 km
Elevation Gain: 511 m
Elevation Loss: 511 m
Difficulty:
462 (Moderate)
FIETS Index: 1.70 FIETS
Avg Grade: 5.47 %
Max cat climb: 3
Min elevation: 56 m
Max elevation: 360 m
Ride Category:
Hilly
The road from Las Casitas climbs to Femés, the village on the saddle of the Los Ajaches in the south of Lanzarote, in the Canary Islands, Spain. Femés was once the main settlement of the island’s south and had its own municipality until 1953. The road is a race climb too: the Vuelta Ciclista a Lanzarote, run by Club La Santa since 2024, used it for its time trial in 2025, when more than 600 riders from 28 countries took part.
The ride climbs from near Uga through Las Casitas to Femés, then drops west past Maciot to Las Breñas, which around 1850 was a scatter of some thirty houses whose people lived mainly from fishing. It turns at La Hoya, just inland of the Salinas de Janubio. Begun in 1895 and worked by the Padrón family, they are still the largest salt pans on Lanzarote. The ride then climbs back through Las Breñas on the steeper side of Femés and returns down to the start.
