Sierra de Albarracín is a 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
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.
Monterde de Albarracín is located at the northern end of the range.
The Sierra de Albarracín is a rough-looking mountain chain with
pine
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae.
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,
oak and
juniper forests and also many patches where the rock is exposed. Its summits are usually covered in
snow
Snow consists of individual ice crystals that grow while suspended in the atmosphere—usually within clouds—and then fall, accumulating on the ground where they undergo further changes.
It consists of frozen crystalline water througho ...
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
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
of these mountains.
Aramón Javalambre
See also
* Albarracín
* Monterde de Albarracín
* List of mountains in Aragon
References
External links
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Albarracín on Diputación de TeruelTurismo AlbarracinTurismo en la Sierra de Albarracín (Teruel)The highest camping in SpainSocial organization, reproductive behavior and ecology of Leptothorax acervorum (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Sierra de Albarracin in central Spain
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