Disaster of the Ravine of the Wolf, defeats military Spanish against the leader's rifeño troops Abd-the-Krim, happened July 27 1909 in the homonymous steep cliff, located in the estribaciones of the solid mountainous Gurugú (that dominates the city of Melilla), during the war of Morocco. Critical point of the campaign melillense, ended up to unchain the denominated Tragic Week of Barcelona and the political defeat of the indirectly then the government's president Antonio Maura.



The oriental area of the Spanish colonial territory in Morocco, with center in Melilla, it was being harassed from principles of July of 1909 for the raffles us (tribes norteafricanas that occupied the region of the Rif) who attacked the workers that worked in the construction of a mining railroad mainly. The Guerra's minister Arsenio Linares Pombo, instead of sending prepared troops to the effect, allowed that the military governor of Melilla, the general José Marina, was not able to but appealing reservists to make a maneuver of distraction on the raffles us rebellious. The general Pintos Ledesma was the one in charge of putting on to the front of the inexpert soldiers. The entrance in combat in the well-known area as ravine of the Wolf was an authentic disaster for the Spaniards, broadly defeated at the hands of the forces of Abd-the-Krim, July 27. The news shocked all Spain, but especially to Barcelona, origin place of most of those near a thousand dead men in the unequal warlike encounter and where a violent insurrection was developed. In September, the general José Cavalcanti was able to overcome the military setback, but not its consequences.