The Camino Francés is the most travelled route of the Way of Saint James: from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, at the foot of the Pyrenees, to Santiago de Compostela, about 770 km across Navarre, La Rioja, Castile and León and Galicia.
This is the biggest map on this site and a stress test for the plugin: the full-resolution track has 32,962 points in a file of about 2 MB. Look at the elevation chart: the Pyrenees at the start, the long plateau of the Meseta in the middle, then the climbs to the Cruz de Ferro and to O Cebreiro before Galicia. There is a marker every 50 km.
Map of the route “Camino Francés: Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago”: 768,55 km, 11.592 m of climbing and 11.497 m of descent, elevation between 168 m and 1.508 m. It starts at 43.16234, -1.23723 and ends at 42.88120, -8.54286 (latitude, longitude).
Max elevation: 1508 m
Min elevation: 168 m
Total climbing: 11592 m
Total descent: 11497 m
About this track
- From Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port (France) to Santiago de Compostela (Spain).
- Full-resolution version: 32,962 points, about 2 MB. A lighter version with 8,699 points is also available: camino-frances.gpx.
- The route is the one mapped in OpenStreetMap, without the alternative variants: check the stages and the albergues before you go.
Route data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Elevation: EU-DEM via OpenTopoData. Map and charts: WP GPX Maps.