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Potes is the highest of all villages in the Picos de Europa National Park, a spectacular mountainous Biosphere Reserve. It is sheltered by the peaks of the Peña Main, which form the Central Massif of the Picos de Europa.

Sotres is part of the European GR footpath network, being the arrival point of the GR-71 route known as the "Path of the Saja Nature Reserve" that begins in Corconte in Cantabria and traverses the spectacular hills and valleys of the Urrieles. It is one of several villages producing the famous Queso de Cabrales, a piquante blue cheese traditionally matured in the limestone caves common to the region.

Like much of Asturias, and rural Spain in general, Sotres has experienced significant depopulation since the early 1970s (the nearby village of Tresviso is officially the smallest in Spain, with just 64 inhabitants) As a result, construction of the Park's first ski resort at San Gloria, which met with considerable opposition from conservation groups, has been largely supported by villagers who see it as a much needed boost to the area's dynamism, and a new mountaintop road from Sotres to the resort has already been approved by the Asturias regional government.