The Puig des Racó (or ''Puig des Recò'') is a hill in the northeast of the
Spanish
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island of
Mallorca.
Geography
The hill belongs to the ''Artà mountains'', the northern part of the Serres de Llevant mountain range. Its summit reaches an elevation of 386 meters; a saddle at 371 m divides it from a subsummit marked by a
trig point
A triangulation station, also known as a trigonometrical point, and sometimes informally as a trig, is a fixed surveying station, used in geodetic surveying and other surveying projects in its vicinity. The nomenclature varies regionally: they a ...
at an elevation of 385 m. The municipal boundary between
Artà
Artà is one of the 53 independent municipalities on the Spanish Balearic island of Majorca. The small town of the same name is the administrative seat of this municipality in the region (''Comarca'') of Llevant.
Population
In 2008 the munic ...
(West of the hill) and
Capdepera
Capdepera is a small municipality on Majorca, one of the Balearic Islands, Spain.
Capdepera is a historical village just 8 km from Artà. Originally there had been a watchtower where the Castle of Capdepera stands today which was used to guar ...
(East) runs along its crest. Within the municipality of Capdepera, the Puig de Racó is the highest point. At the foot of its western flank runs the road from Artà to
Cala Torta from south-west to north-east, while south of the hill runs the provincial road ''Ma-15'' between Artà and Capdepera. Northwest of the Puig des Racó rises the Puig Poca Son, to which it is connected by the ''
Coll des Racó'' saddle, at 233 m of elevation. Northeast the saddle named ''Coll de ses Buines'' (312 m) connects Puig des Racò with the ''Puig Poloni'' (363 m). At the southwestern spur of the hill lies the archaeological site of Talaiot de ses Planetes. From the mountain spring some small streams which only occasionally carry water.
Access to the summit
The NE subsummit of the hill can be easily reached following a good foothpath starting from the ''Colle des Racó''; the main summit of the hill needs some
scrambling
Scrambling is a mountaineering term for ascending steep terrain using one's hands to assist in holds and balance.''New Oxford American Dictionary''. It is also used to describe terrain that falls between hiking and rock climbing (as a “scrambl ...
but no
alpinistic skills.
See also
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List of mountains in Spain
This is a list of Spain, Spanish mountains with their elevation taken from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística de España data.''Cuadro sinóptico de los sistemas montañosos españoles'', .xls table owww.ine.es/ref>
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References
Photo gallery
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Mountains of Mallorca
Mountains of the Balearic Islands