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The Serre Calabresi or ''Calabrian Serre'' ( Calabrian dialect: ''Serra'') are a mountain and hill area of Calabria, southern Italy, characterized by large extents of woods.
The name could be derived by the Jewish ''Ser'', meaning "mountains", or it could refer to the shape of a handsaw. The highest peak is the Monte Pecoraro, with an altitude of 1423 m.
Parco Naturale Regionale delle Serre
{{mountains of Calabria Mountains of Calabria Mountain ranges of Italy Geographical, historical and cultural regions of Italy
The Serre Calabresi or ''Calabrian Serre'' ( Calabrian dialect: ''Serra'') are a mountain and hill area of Calabria, southern Italy, characterized by large extents of woods.
The name could be derived by the Jewish ''Ser'', meaning "mountains", or it could refer to the shape of a handsaw. The highest peak is the Monte Pecoraro, with an altitude of 1423 m.
Geography and geology
The chain begins at the Passo della Limina and ends atIsthmus of Catanzaro 240px, Satellite view of the isthmus.
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, the narrowest in Italy (c. 30 km separating the Ionian Sea from the Tyrrhenian Sea
The Tyrrhenian Sea (; it, Mar Tirreno , french: Mer Tyrrhénienne , sc, Mare Tirrenu, co, Mari Tirrenu, scn, Mari Tirrenu, nap, Mare Tirreno) is part of the Mediterranean Sea off the western coast of Italy. It is named for the Tyrrhenian p ...
). It is bounded by the Sila Range from the north and by the Aspromonte from the south.
Geologically, the Serre Calabresi are part of the so-called Calabrian Alps, and are mostly formed by graniti, porphyry and diorite. The eastern area also includes sandstone, while the Monte Mammicomito has instead a limestone-dolomite Dolomite may refer to:
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structure, characterized also by Karst topography
Karst is a topography formed from the dissolution of soluble rocks such as limestone, dolomite, and gypsum. It is characterized by underground drainage systems with sinkholes and caves. It has also been documented for more weathering-resistant ...
. Badlands
Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded."Badlands" in ''Chambers's Encyclopædia''. London: George Newnes, 1961, Vol. 2, p. 47. They are characterized by steep slopes, mi ...
are also present.
Fauna and vegetation
The fauna of the Serre has been depleted by human hunting. Recently, the Italian wolf has returned, probably from Sila. Vegetation include ''Abies alba
''Abies alba'', the European silver fir or silver fir, is a fir native to the mountains of Europe, from the Pyrenees north to Normandy, east to the Alps and the Carpathians, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia, and s ...
'' and Oak in the lowest slopes, while the Beech
Beech (''Fagus'') is a genus of deciduous trees in the family Fagaceae, native to temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. Recent classifications recognize 10 to 13 species in two distinct subgenera, ''Engleriana'' and ''Fagus''. The ''Engle ...
predominates over the 80 m of altitude.
See also
* Natural regional park of SerreSources
*External links
Parco Naturale Regionale delle Serre
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