Montes de Toledo

Montes de Toledo
Range
View of Sierra de Villuercas from Castañar de Ibor
Country	Spain
Communities	Castile-La Mancha and  Extremadura
Highest point	La Villuerca
- elevation	1,603 m (5,259 ft)
- coordinates	39°30′45″N 04°43′53″W / 39.5125°N 4.73139°W / 39.5125; -4.73139
Orogeny	Alpine
Period	Tertiary

Montes de Toledo landscape in puerto de Los Santos (Ciudad Real).

The Montes de Toledo are one of the main systems of mountain ranges in Spain. They divide the drainage basin of the Tagus from the basin of the Guadiana.

Description

They are located in the central regions of the Iberian Peninsula, cutting transversally from east to west across the lower portion of the Meseta Central. They also form one of the natural limits of the historical La Mancha region in Castile-La Mancha.

The length of the Montes de Toledo is 350 km and their maximum width up to 100 km near Sonseca and Puertollano. The highest peak is La Villuerca, 1,603 m located in Sierra de Villuercas subrange, also known as Sierra de Guadalupe, Las Villuercas, in the province of Cáceres. Other subranges are: Sierra de Altamira, Sierra de Montánchez, Sierra de San Mamede and Sierra de San Pedro. The geological formation of this range is similar to the Sierra Morena range further south.

There is also a comarca in the Toledo Province known as Montes de Toledo. Despite its name this comarca only includes a small part of the range.

See also

• Montes de Toledo Comarca
• La Jara
• Sierra Morena
• La Mancha

References

• Julio Muñoz Jiménez, Los Montes de Toledo. Estudios de Geografía Física. Departamento de Geografía de la Universidad de Oviedo. Instituto J. S. Elcano (CSIC), Oviedo 1976
• Wes Gibbons & Teresa Moreno, The geology of Spain , ISBN 9781862391109

External links

• Parque Nacional de Cabañeros La belleza de los Montes de Toledo (Spanish)
• Ordovician -Dobrotivian (Llandeillian Stage) to Ashgill- Crinoids from the Montes de Toledo and Sierra Morena

Coordinates: 39°30′N 4°43′W / 39.5°N 4.717°W / 39.5; -4.717