Camino Primitivo
Oviedo → Santiago de Compostela
A mountain route across northern Spain, beginning in Oviedo and joining the Camino Francés at Melide for the final approach to Santiago.
CaminoFinder maps that Oviedo → Santiago walk using certified public route data. Day-by-day stages are not yet provided.
At a glance
Essential facts
- Start
- Oviedo
- End
- Santiago de Compostela
- Mapped route
- ≈313 km
- Ascent
- ≈10,244 m
The mapped route
Route map
Along the walk
Elevation profile
- Total ascent
- ≈10,244 m
- Total descent
- ≈10,214 m
- Highest point
- ≈1,158 m
One continuous profile from Oviedo to Santiago. The high point, around 1,158 m, is in the Asturian mountains. The profile shows the shape of the walk, not a plan of daily stages.
Through Asturias and Galicia
The journey
From Oviedo the mapped route climbs west through Asturias — by Tineo, Pola de Allande and Grandas de Salime — then enters Galicia at A Fonsagrada and continues through Lugo to Melide.
At Melide, the Camino Primitivo joins the Camino Francés for the final approach to Santiago.
Oviedo
Tineo
Pola de Allande
Grandas de Salime
A Fonsagrada
Lugo
Melide
Santiago de Compostela
This page orients you in the geography of the walk from Oviedo to Santiago. It is not a day-by-day itinerary, and CaminoFinder does not yet prescribe walking days.
About this map
Source note
Route geometry comes from public Camino de Santiago route data distributed by Spain’s National Geographic Institute (CNIG) and created by FEAACS. After Melide the mapped line follows the already-certified Camino Francés corridor to Santiago. Elevation is derived from Spain’s MDT05 terrain model using CaminoFinder’s documented methodology. The mapped length and climbing figures are approximate; published Camino distances vary.
FEAACS (creator). O.A. CNIG (distributor). «Rutas de Caminos de Santiago». CC-BY 4.0 FEAACS. Derived from MDT05-cob1 2008–2015 CC-BY 4.0 scne.es.