Elevation 1,856 m Parent range Sistema Ibérico | Easiest route Monterde de Albarracín | |
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Location Gúdar-Javalambre, Aragon
Rincón de Ademuz and Serrans, Valencian Community Mountain type Shale (Late Ordovician) Similar Montes Universales, Tagus, Sistema Ibérico, Parque Natural del Alto Tajo, Sierra de Javalambre | ||
Sierra de Albarracín is a 28 km (17 mi) long mountain range in the southwestern end of the Iberian System. Its highest point is the 1,856 m high summit known as Sierra Alta.
Description
This mountain range is named after the town of Albarracín, located at a height of 1,200 m. At the same time it gives its name to the Sierra de Albarracín comarca of Aragon, Spain. Monterde de Albarracín is located at the northern end of the range.
The Sierra de Albarracín is a rough-looking mountain chain with pine, oak and juniper forests and also many patches where the rock is exposed. Its summits are usually covered in snow in the winter and the average temperature is of 11°C. It was formerly one of the most lonely and desolate areas of Spain and there were not even marked paths crossing its impenetrable forests and jagged ridges.
Metopoceras albarracina is an endemic moth of these mountains.