The Solorio Range ( es, Sierra de Solorio) is a mountain range located in the western side of the

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. It straddles

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, Castile-La Mancha and Castile and León.

Description

The ridge is roughly aligned in an E-W direction. Its northern boundary is marked by the Jalón River and its southern by the

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and the Parameras de Molina; the eastern limits are at the Piedra River and the La Tranquera Dam, from where the ridge extends westwards until reaching Sierra Ministra. There is very low population density in the area as villages are few and sparsely inhabited. This mountain chain divides the

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from the

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watershed, with rivers

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, a tributary of the

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, and the

Mesa River The Mesa River ( es, Río Mesa) is a river in the Sierra de Solorio range area, Iberian System, Spain. It is a tributary of the Piedra River. There are trout in the river, but the population of the endangered European freshwater crayfish in the ...

, a tributary of the

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which is part of the

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system, having their sources in this range. In the Sierra de Solorio there is the largest

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forest in Europe. The

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Summits

None of the Sierra de Solorio summits are very conspicuous, for their

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rarely surpasses 300 m. Its highest point is Alto de San Sebastián (1,366 m). Other notable summits are

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(1.355 m.) located south of

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, Las Papas (1.351 m.) between Judes and

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, Alto de la Calera (1.308 m.) between Iruecha and

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, Alto de Judes (1.293 m.) east of Judes, Sima de Calmarza (1.039 m.) east of Calmarza, Cabeza del Águila (1.022 m.) north of Calmarza and Loma del Camarero (949 m.) north of

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. There is a mountain pass at Maranchón.

Features

File:EL SABINAR.jpg, Spanish Juniper trees in the range File:Embalse de La Tranquera.jpg, View of the eastern end of the range at La Tranquera Dam File:Maranchón Complex Windpark.JPG,

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on top of the ridge near Maranchón

References

External links

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Por la Sierra de Solorio - Hiking in the Mountains of Solorio

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Description

Summits

Features

See also

References

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