Map of Burgos Area © Mark Wade

Unknown place, evidently the pass in the mountains south of Silos. Literally, ‘Spine of the Dog’.

• Book III Chapter XXV:

  That night my Cid lay at Spinar de Can, and people flocked to him from all parts, and early on the morrow he set out; Santestevan lay on his left hand, which is a good city, and Ahilon on the right, which belongs to the Moors, and he passed by Alcobiella, which is the boundary of Castille.