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9-682: Located at the feet of the Sierra de Gredos mountain range, in the Tiétar river valley, the comarca is economically based on agriculture. It is the home of the highly sought-after Pimentón de la Vera, which has achieved “Protected Denomination of Origin” status. This article about a location in the autonomous community of Extremadura, Spain is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . 40°05′55″N 5°40′50″W  /  40.09861°N 5.68056°W  / 40.09861; -5.68056 Sierra de Gredos The Sierra de Gredos

18-479: Is a mountain range in central Spain that spans the provinces of Ávila , Salamanca , Cáceres , Madrid , and Toledo . It is part of the much larger Sistema Central of mountain ranges. Its highest point is Pico Almanzor at 2,592 meters and it has been declared a natural park by the Autonomous Community of Castile and León . The Sierra de Gredos is one of the most extensive mountain ranges of

27-465: Is granular and phaneritic in texture. This rock consists mainly of quartz , mica , and feldspar . In some Gredos rocks the feldspar crystals are especially large, attaining a size of several centimeters in some cases. There is also some granodiorite and outcrops of metamorphic rocks . During a large part of the Paleozoic Era , from 600 to 350 million years ago, the whole area was covered by

36-750: The Alpine Orogeny , created the mountains that today comprise the Central System. The tectonic style of the Sierra de Gredos is the so-called Germanic style, i.e. with large upraised fault blocks, known as horst , bounded by graben . The Sierra de Gredos is divided into three sectors: the Eastern sector up to the Puerto del Pico fault, the Central sector up to the Puerto de Tornavacas fault, and

45-646: The Tethys Ocean where horizontal layers or strata of sediments accumulated due to the process of erosion in the unflooded regions. These sediments were fractured and folded due to the actions of the Variscan Orogeny and extensive areas emerged from the sea. At the end of the Paleozoic molten magma rose up which turned into granite as it cooled. Erosion continued for a long time until between 40 and 2 million years ago, when another convulsion, known as

54-808: The Central System; it comprises five river valleys: the Alto Tormes , the Alto Alberche , the Tiétar Oriental , the Tiétar Occidental y la Vera , and the Valle del Ambroz . The first known inhabitants were the Vettones , a pre-Roman Celtic people. The central part of the range encomprises the Sierra de Gredos Regional Park . The Sierra de Gredos comprises mainly granite , which is a common type of intrusive, felsic, igneous rock which

63-721: The Western sector which is the Sierra de Béjar . The range's snowline was measured at 1800-1900 meters in 1916. Rises in the south near the North Tietar fault. The northern limit of the horst is structured by a system of faults that run to the north-east, such as the Burguillo fault, and also in an east–west direction, like the Navaluenga fault, along which the Alberche river runs. The highest peaks of this sector are

72-462: The following: The main species to be found in the Sierra de Gredos are the following: The variety of plant life in the Sierra de Gredos is closely related to the altitude at which it is found. In ascending order, the following species of trees can be found: holm oak (or holly oak), chestnut , alder , rowan (or mountain ash), birch , aspen , willow , Pyrenean oak , replaced in some areas by pine . At higher altitudes there are mostly bushes of

81-506: The genus Cytisus (brooms), juniper and several species of camomile . Four different layers of vegetation have been identified:. Tourists visit the Sierra de Gredos to hike and stargaze. 40°18′N 5°05′W  /  40.300°N 5.083°W  / 40.300; -5.083 Navaluenga Too Many Requests If you report this error to the Wikimedia System Administrators, please include

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