Mountain type Karstic (Mesozoic) Province Province of Teruel Country Spain | Elevation 1,935 m Highest point Caimodorro Easiest route Villar del Cobo | |
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Location Sierra de Albarracín Comarca, Aragon Parent range Iberian System, Southern zone Mountains Caimodorro, Muela de San Juan Similar Sierra de Albarracín, Sistema Ibérico, Parque Natural del Alto Tajo, Sierra de Javalambre, Sierra de Gúdar | ||
Montes universales sus rincones hd
Montes Universales is a 32 km (20 mi) long mountain range in the southeastern end of the Iberian System. Its highest point is the 1,935 m high summit known as Caimodorro. The 1,830 m high Muela de San Juan is another important peak.
Contents
- Montes universales sus rincones hd
- Map of Montes Universales 44115 Teruel Spain
- El caimodorro cima de los montes universales
- Geography
- Flora and fauna
- References
Map of Montes Universales, 44115, Teruel, Spain
Administratively the Montes Universales belong to the Sierra de Albarracín comarca of Aragon, therefore there are often confused with the geographical Sierra de Albarracín mountain range.
El caimodorro cima de los montes universales
Geography
The range is aligned in a NW - SE direction and is not as high as neighboring mountain ranges. It is, however, very significant from the hydrographic point of view for important rivers of the Iberian Peninsula have their source in these mountains, which divide the Atlantic from the Mediterranean watershed. Among the Iberian rivers that originate in the Montes Universales the most important are Tagus on the western slopes, and the Túria, Cabriel and Xúquer on the eastern.
The Montes Universales limit on the northeast with the paleozoic massifs of Caimodorro and Loma Alta, in the southeast with the Serranía de Cuenca and with the Sierra de Jabalón and the Túria Valley in the east.
Flora and fauna
These mountains are covered with mostly not very dense clumps of pine, oak and Iberian Juniper (Juniperus thurifera) forest.
Radiocarbon samples from Ojos del Tremedal show that birches, now almost absent from these mountains, were very common in the Montes Universales during the ice age around 9,600 years ago. Signs of human interference with the vegetation have been detected beginning from about 3,500 years before.
Erebia zapateri is an endemic butterfly of these mountains.