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Sierra de San Pedro is a mountain range in the greater Montes de Toledo range, Spain. It is named after Saint Peter the apostle and rises in the limits of Cáceres and Badajoz Provinces, in the western part of the autonomous community of Extremadura close to its border with Portugal. This range gives its name to the Sierra de San Pedro - Los Baldíos comarca.〔(Asociación de desarrollo de la Comarca Sierra San Pedro-Baldios )〕 This mountain range separates the drainage basin of the Tagus to the north from the basin of the Guadiana to the south. The main rivers that have their sources in this range are the Rivera de Aurela, flowing towards the Tagus, as well as the Zapatón River, a tributary of the Xévora River that flows through Portugal into the Guadiana. ==Description== The Sierra de San Pedro is a range of low hills that stretches for over 60 km in a NW/SE direction. It is parallel to the Serra de São Mamede to the west in nearby Portugal and is relatively lower than the latter. The range is located between the towns of Arroyo de la Luz north of the range and Alburquerque, Badajoz to the south, and the N-630 road (Spain) in the east and the towns of Membrio and San Vicente de Alcántara in the west. The Peña del Águila Dam on river Zapatón that supplies water to Alburquerque is located in the range.〔(Sierra de San Pedro, Extremadura - Tourism )〕 A projection of the range stretching northwards from its western end is known as the Sierra de Carbajo, also named ''Sierra de Santiago'', a small range located between Carbajo and Santiago de Alcántara. The Sierra de San Pedro range is not very conspicuous and since the maximum altitudes rarely surpass 700 m, its main ridge barely rises above the surrounding high plateau in some stretches. The highest point is 702 m high Torrico de San Pedro, other important summits are Atalaya (624 m), Chorlo (624 m), Morrón del Cotarro (615 m) and Manzano (610 m).〔Julio Muñoz Jiménez, ''Los Montes de Toledo. Estudios de Geografía Física''. Departamento de Geografía de la Universidad de Oviedo. Instituto J. S. Elcano (CSIC), Oviedo 1976〕 The vegetation of the Sierra de San Pedro range is characteristic Mediterranean scrubland with wooded patches and clarified forests, where the holm oak dominates, present across the range. The shrubland of the range includes flowers such as ''Asphodelus'' and common peony. The wild vegetation alternates with cork oak whose growth was traditionally promoted by the inhabitants of the area in order to obtain cork, for this range has one of the highest productions of cork in the world. There is a very old and large cork oak that has been nicknamed ''El Abuelo'' (The Grandfather) in the range.〔(Sierra de San Pedro-Los Baldíos )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sierra de San Pedro」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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