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Valencià
EnglishNature Reserve Saws of Mariola
The Sierra de Mariola mountain range, located between the counties of L`Alcoià, El Comtat and La Vall d`Albaida, is one of the parts of Valencia where particularly significant environmental, landscape and socio-cultural values all overlap.
Made up mostly of lime materials, the intense tectonic activity has generated a massif with a great variety of topography, which reaches its greatest assertiveness at the north-western end, a sector where the greatest heights are also found, towered over by the 1,389 metres of the emblematic Montcabrer.
The important aquifers of Mariola, recognised as long ago as by botanist Cavanilles, give rise to countless springs and water emergences which are scattered about the whole surface of the mountain range.
Through its long history of occupation and human interaction the different uses made on the natural resources of the range have ended up configuring an outstanding mosaic of ecosystems and landscapes, which synthesise, like few territories in Valencia do, the basic characteristics and peculiarities of the Mediterranean mid-height mountain range, an aspect that has made the Sierra de Mariola a genuine sign of identity for the surrounding villages.
More information in: web site oficial Saws of Mariola Nature Reserve