Topography

Topography

Within the mountains that form the Iberian peninsula, the region belongs to the Marina Baixa Subbético system and within it, andalusia Prebético.

Alicante is surrounded by southwest-northeast, a mountainous arch enclosed compound saw considerable altitude, the boundary in the northwest and southwest Albacete Murcia, pudiéndolo split in two parallel strands: the first houses the Sierra del Cid, Maigmó of the mountains, the mountains of Renton, the Sierra de la Grana, the mountains of Cabeça d'Or, the Sierra de Aitana and Puig Campana. The second is formed by the mountains of Peñarrubia, Sierra de Onil, Menejador the mountains of the Alt de la Font Freda, the Sierra de Mariola, saw the Serrella, saw the Xorta and saw Bernie, heights and there are others, but not so high as part of the cordon and reach the Montgo. Physically separating the two strands of the northern province of Alicante in the south of the province of Valencia, on the northwest, with Albacete.

Included in that first mountain range lies the town of Orxeta. The topography is mainly mountainous, with the exception of the River Sella which crosses from north to south, forming a small but fertile plain, which houses one of the largest irrigated areas of the peoples of the interior. In its terrain, surrounded by pits of small size, the Sierra Orxeta stressed that reaches an elevation of 678 m asl Other mountains that define the term are those of the Travessa (488 m) at its border with Relleu, La Mina (387 m) towards Finestrat, and the Sierra del Pantanet (486 m) near the end of Busot.