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Mountain Attractions In Andalucia

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Andalusia is an autonomous community in southern Spain. It is the most populous and the second largest in area of the autonomous communities in the country. The Andalusian autonomous community is officially recognised as a historical nationality. The territory is divided into eight provinces: Almería, Cádiz, Córdoba, Granada, Huelva, Jaén, Málaga and Seville. Its capital is the city of Seville . Andalusia is located in a privileged area in the south of the Iberian peninsula, in south-western Europe, immediately south of the autonomous communities of Extremadura and Castilla-La Mancha; west of the autonomous community of Murcia and the Mediterranea...
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Mountain Attractions In Andalucia

  • 2. La Concha Marbella
    Not to be confused with Manuel de la ConchaManuel Gutiérrez de la Concha e Irigoyen, known also as the Marqués del Duero, was a 19th-century Spanish military man and Liberal-Moderate politician, noted for opposing the Carlist rebellions. He was born in Córdoba del Tucumán, Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata , on 3 April 1808, and died at Monte Muro, Navarre, on 27 June 1874.
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  • 4. Sierra de Gador Almeria
    Gádor is a municipality of Almería province, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. The murder of Bernardo Gonzalez Parra by Francisco Leona happened on 28 June 1910 in Gádor.
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  • 5. Montes de Malaga Natural Park Malaga
    Montes de Málaga is a mountain range of the Penibaetic System in Málaga Province, Andalusia, Spain. Its highest point is the 1,030 m high Cresta de la Reina peak. Other notable peaks are San Antón, Coronado, Monte Victoria and Gibralfaro. The range is named after Málaga City located at its feet.
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  • 6. Pena de los Enamorados Antequera
    Peña de los Enamorados is a mountain near the city of Antequera, Málaga Province, Andalusia, Spain. It reaches a height of 880 metres above sea level.
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  • 8. El CHorro El Chorro
    El Chorro is a small village located in Málaga in southern Spain, near the town of Álora. It is one of the most popular rock climbing attractions in Spain as it is located next to Desfiladero de los Gaitanes , This village is also frequented by mountain bikers, hikers, and campers.
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  • 10. Pico Veleta Sierra Nevada National Park
    Veleta or Pico del Veleta is the third highest peak of the Iberian peninsula and the second highest in the Sierra Nevada. Its height is given variously as 3,394 metres , 3,396 metres and 3,398 metres .The mountain can be seen from the city of Granada. Veleta's northern slopes are home to the Sierra Nevada Ski Station. The access road that takes one to approximately 10 metres below the summit is the highest paved road in Europe across the mountains from Granada to the western Alpujarras. This road was built before the creation of the Sierra Nevada National Park in 1999. It has since been closed to general traffic beyond Hoya de la Mora, just above the ski station. However, the road is still used by ski station employees, national park rangers, observatory staff, cyclists and walkers, and a ...
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  • 13. La Maroma Province Of Malaga
    Viñuela is a municipality in the province of Málaga in the autonomous community of Andalusia in southern Spain. It belongs to the comarca of La Axarquía. The village of La Viñuela is situated 47 kilometres from the provincial capital of Málaga and 19 kilometres from the coast at Torre del Mar. The village sits at a height of 150 metres above sea level. Inhabitants are called viñoleros. One of its hamlets is Los Romanes. La Viñuela is dominated by the landscape of La Maroma, which belongs to the mountain range known as Sierra de Tejeda and at a height of 2,068 metres is the highest mountain in Axarquía. Another dominant feature of the landscape is that of the reservoir known in English as Lake Viñuela; it holds 170 million cubic metres of water and is surrounded by picnic areas, so...
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  • 14. Alpujarra Mountains Andalucia
    The Alpujarra is a natural and historical region in Andalusia, Spain, on the south slopes of the Sierra Nevada and the adjacent valley. The average elevation is 1,200 metres above sea level. It extends over two provinces, Granada and Almería; it is sometimes referred to in the plural as Las Alpujarras. There are several interpretations of this Arabic name: the most convincing is that it derives from al-basharāt , meaning something like sierra of pastures. The administrative centre is Órgiva. The Sierra Nevada runs west-to-east for about 80 km. It includes the highest mountain in mainland Spain: the Mulhacén at 3479 m. As the name implies, it is covered with snow in winter. The snow-melt in the spring and summer allows the southern slopes of the Sierra to remain green and fertile throug...
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  • 15. Sierra Aracena Andalucia
    The Sierra Morena is one of the main systems of mountain ranges in Spain. It stretches for 450 kilometres from east to west across the south of the Iberian Peninsula, forming the southern border of the Meseta Central plateau and providing the watershed between the valleys of the Guadiana to the north and the west, and the Guadalquivir to the south. Its highest summit is 1,332 m high Bañuela. Other notable peaks are Corral de Borros 1,312 m and Cerro de la Estrella 1,298 m. The name Sierra Morena has a strong legendary reputation in Spanish culture and tradition, with myths about bandits , a giant snake and a child brought up by wolves , among others. This range is also mentioned in the famous Mexican song Cielito Lindo and in one of the most well known traditional Spanish songs, Soy Miner...
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