Prebaetic System

Prebaetic System
Range
La Sagra seen from Sierra Seca
Country	Spain
State	Andalusia,  Murcia,  Valencian Community
Part of	Baetic System
Highest point	La Sagra
- elevation	2,382 m (7,815 ft)

The Prebaetic System (Spanish: Sistemas Prebéticos, also often referred to simply as Prebético^[1]) is a system of mountain ranges that forms the northernmost prolongation of the Baetic System in the southern Iberian Peninsula. 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 that runs along eastern interior Andalusia, across the Region of Murcia, reaching the Mediterranean Sea shores in the southern Valencian Community.^[2]

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 runs across the Prebaetic System and the Cordillera Penibética.

This orographical unit shares similar characteristics to its parent system, the Subbaetic Mountain Range but is located farther inland and is absent in the western section. The materials that compose it were formed in a relatively shallow sea.^[3] The Iberian System rises north of the eastern part of the Prebaetic System.

Main mountain ranges

Some of The mountain ranges that make up the Prebético complex are, from west to east:

• Sierra de Cazorla
• Sierra de Segura
• Sierra de Alcaraz
• Sierra de Castril
• Sierra de Cabrilla
• Sierra Seca
• Sierra de la Sagra, both Sierra Mágina and Sierra de la Sagra are overlapping with the Sistema Subbético
• Sierra del Taibilla
• Sierra de María, overlapping with the Sistema Penibético.
• Serra de Crevillent
• Sierra de Orihuela
• Sierra de Callosa
• Serra Mariola
• Montgó Massif
• Sierra de Bernia
• Penyal d'Ifac

See also

• Baetic Cordillera

References

1. ^ Embalse del Taibilla
2. ^ Edited by W Gibbons & T Moreno, Geology of Spain, 2002, ISBN 9781862391109
3. ^ Morfología kárstica del sector oriental del Prebético andaluz

External links

• Past and present potential distribution of the Iberian Abies species: a phytogeographic approach using fossil pollen data and species distribution models
• Michael Deusch, Axel Friebe & Manfred Krautter (1991): The Spongiolithic Facies in the Middle and Upper Jurassic of Spain - Abstract

Coordinates: 37°57′N 2°34′W / 37.95°N 2.567°W / 37.95; -2.567