Prebaetic System
System of mountain ranges in the southern Iberian Peninsula
The Prebaetic System (Spanish: Sistemas Prebéticos or Sistema Prebético, also often referred to simply as Prebético) is a system of mountain ranges that forms the northeasternmost prolongation of the Baetic System in the southern Iberian Peninsula.
01Geography
Although it is sometimes referred to as Cordillera Prebética, it is not a proper cordillera, or continuous alignment of ranges, but a broken system of mountain ranges. Unlike the other two subsystems of the Baetic System, it is not present in the western area, but begins west of the eastern edge of the Sierra Sur de Jaén near Martos.
The Prebaetic System runs along eastern interior Andalusia, across the Region of Murcia, reaching the Mediterranean Sea shores in the southern Valencian Community.
Its highest point is La Sagra, Sierra de la Sagra; other high ranges are Sierra de Segura and Sierra de Cazorla. The Sierra de María in northern Almeria Province runs across the Prebaetic and the Penibaetic System, overlapping with both.
02Geology
Geologically the Prebaetic System shares similar characteristics to its parent system, the Subbaetic System and it is considered its eastern offshoot. The materials that compose it were formed in a relatively shallow sea. The Iberian System rises north of the eastern part of the Prebaetic System.
03Main mountain ranges
Some of the mountain ranges that make up the Prebaetic complex are, from west to east:
- Sierra Sur de Jaén, overlapping with the Sistema Subbético
- Sierra Mágina
- Sierra de la Sagra
- Sierra de Cazorla
- Sierra de Segura
- Sierra de Alcaraz
- Sierra de Castril
- Sierra de Cabrilla
- Sierra Seca
- Sierra del Taibilla
- Sierra de María, overlapping with the Sistema Penibético.
- Serra de Crevillent
- Sierra de Orihuela
- Sierra de Callosa
- Serra Mariola
- Serra del Ferrer
- La Carrasqueta
- Puig Campana
- Aitana
- Maigmó Massif
- Serrella
- Serra de la Xortà
- Serra de la Penya-roja
- Montgó Massif
- Sierra de Bernia
- Penyal d'Ifac
Sources and credits
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- La Sagra.jpg by No machine-readable author provided. Juandiegocano~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain
- Baetic Systems.png by Xufanc, CC BY-SA 3.0
- JDCANO AGUILON DEL LOCO.jpg by No machine-readable author provided. Juandiegocano~commonswiki assumed (based on copyright claims)., Public domain
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