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.[2]

Sierra de Albarracín
View of the Sierra de Albarracín
Highest point
Elevation	1,856 m (6,089 ft)
Listing	Mountains of Aragon, List of mountains in the Valencian Community
Coordinates	40°29′10″N 1°36′55″W
Geography
Sierra de Albarracín Spain
Location	Gúdar-Javalambre, Aragon Rincón de Ademuz and Serrans, Valencian Community
Parent range	Iberian System, Eastern zone
Geology
Mountain type	Shale (Late Ordovician)[1]
Climbing
Easiest route	From the towns of Albarracín or Monterde de Albarracín

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.[3]

Metopoceras albarracina is an endemic moth of these mountains.[4]

See also

• Albarracín
• Monterde de Albarracín
• List of mountains in Aragon

References

External links

• Media related to Sierra de Albarracín at Wikimedia Commons
• Albarracín on Diputación de Teruel
• Turismo Albarracin
• Turismo en la Sierra de Albarracín (Teruel)
• The highest camping in Spain
• Social organization, reproductive behavior and ecology of Leptothorax acervorum (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) from the Sierra de Albarracin in central Spain