Nov
Andalucia - Getting Arround
With a size of 87,268 square kilometres, Andalucia is the second largest autonomous community in Spain.
Its topography is marked by the depression of the Guadalqivir Valley, which runs between two mountainous areas: the Sierra Morena mountains to the north and the Betica ranges to the South.
The Guadalquivir has created a fertile valley to which it lends its name, and forms, together with its tributary, the Genil River, the fundamental axis that physically defines Andalucia.
From its source in the east, in the Sierra de Cazorla, to its mouth in the southwest marshlands of Donana National Park, the Guadalquivir is the source of life of the territory through which it passes.
Fifthy percent of Andalusian territory is mountainous, one-third is found at an altitude above 600 metres, including an extensive high plateau and 46 peaks higher than 1000 metres.
For its altitude - Mulhacen and Veleta both measure over 3,400 metres high - the Sierra Nevada, in the heart of the Penibetica Range, rise as queen of the heights.
