Coll de Rates
6.7 km at 5.3% from Parcent on the CV-715, with smooth tarmac and even gradients through wide hairpins: the classic test climb of the Costa Blanca, busy with pro teams on their winter training camps.
- Start: Parcent
- Length: 6.7 km
- Elevation gain: 354 m
- Average gradient: 5.3%
- Max gradient: 9%
- Many professional teams hold their winter training camps around Calpe and Dénia and use the Coll de Rates as a test climb.
- In the 2010 Vuelta a España it was the first categorised climb of stage 9, from Calpe to Alcoy, won by David López.
- At the top, at 628 m, a restaurant and viewpoint look back over the valley to the Mediterranean.
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