Over 1,000 people will participate in Estepona in the XXIV Provincial Orienteering Circuit

The councilor assigned to the Estepona City Council's Sports Department, Luis Gil, announced that on March 28th, starting at 09:00 AM, the town will host the fourth event of the 24th Provincial Orienteering Circuit "Diputación de Málaga 2025". Approximately 1000 schoolchildren and 200 athletes from about twenty municipalities in the province will participate, with ages ranging from 10 to 75 years old.

The Circuit, which consists of 21 days, began on February 2nd in Villanueva de Tapia and will end on December 14th in Vélez Málaga–Torre del Mar. It is organized with the collaboration of the municipalities where the events are held, with the participation of the Andalusian Orienteering Federation, Malaga Delegation.

For the Estepona event, Plaza García Caparrós will be the meeting point for orienteering enthusiasts, who will test their skills in navigating with the help of a map to reach various control points in the shortest possible time.

The competition will be divided into two shifts: in the morning, from 09:00 AM to 02:00 PM, exclusively for students from local educational centers and in the afternoon, from 04:00 PM to 07:00 PM, it will be open to any participant who wishes to join, with prior registration at www.clubcoma.org.

The terrain of the competition will be mostly urban through the historic center of the city and aims, among other objectives, to promote and encourage sports activities in the natural environment, to introduce possibilities for sports tourism in the province of Málaga, and to facilitate popular participation and sports initiation in Orienteering, in addition to the strictly competitive or federated.

Chess Tournaments

Along with the monitor from the Municipal Chess School, Francisco Jesús Pareja, councilor Luis Gil also announced two chess tournaments that will take place on the same March 28th morning from 10:00 AM to 01:00 PM at Plaza del Ajedrez, with the awards ceremony that same morning at the end of the competitions.

Both tournaments are part of the cultural and leisure event 'Estepona Lives its Streets', which is being celebrated this weekend in the town of Estepona with a varied program of sports, cultural, and gastronomic activities, and will have about 200 schoolchildren participating.

The competitions of the Inter-School tournament will be in the Swiss system over 5 rounds and in the Inter-Centers, Round Robin over 5 rounds per team and 10 minutes per player. Trophies have been established for the top three finishers in each of the tournaments and diplomas for all participants.

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