The Castejón Mountains () are a mountain range in the
Cinco Villas comarca of Aragon, Spain, located about to the north of
Zaragoza
Zaragoza (), traditionally known in English as Saragossa ( ), is the capital city of the province of Zaragoza and of the autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributaries, the ...
. They are named after the town of
Castejón de Valdejasa in the midst of the range.
Description
The Castejón Mountains are covered with low and mostly sparse forest made up mainly ''Carrasca'' (''
Quercus ilex
''Quercus ilex'', the holly oak, also (ambiguously, as many oaks are evergreen) evergreen oak, is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean region. It is a member of the section (botany), section ''List of Quercus species#Section Ilex, Il ...
'') and
pine
A pine is any conifer tree or shrub in the genus ''Pinus'' () of the family Pinaceae. ''Pinus'' is the sole genus in the subfamily Pinoideae.
''World Flora Online'' accepts 134 species-rank taxa (119 species and 15 nothospecies) of pines as cu ...
trees, often subject to wildfires during droughts. The ridge's highest summit is Esteban (747 m). Other important summits are Guarizo (745 m), Pogallinero (639 m), Escalerilla (585 m) and Lomaza (476 m).
The northwestern part of the range is also known as Sierra de Erla, after the town of
Erla, located further north, or as Montes de Sora, after the
Sora Castle.
Castillo de Sora
There are also wind turbine
A wind turbine is a device that wind power, converts the kinetic energy of wind into electrical energy. , hundreds of thousands of list of most powerful wind turbines, large turbines, in installations known as wind farms, were generating over ...
s installed in some of the upper ridges.
See also
* Cinco Villas, Aragon
*List of mountains in Aragon
This is a list of mountains in Aragon, Spain. They include the Aneto, the highest peak in the Pyrenees, as well as the Moncayo, the highest peak in the Sistema Ibérico.
See also
* List of Pyrenean three-thousanders
*Pyrenees
* Pre-Py ...
References
External links
Tourism in Comarca of Cinco Villas
Hiking in Montes de Castejón & El Jabalí – Wikiloc
Mountain ranges of Aragon
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