Excursions

The Mountains and Valleys

The predominantly abrupt relief has provoked the territory’s division into different natural regions. The Antequera range which crosses the province with the Camorolos, Cabras, Torcal, Chimenea and Abdalajís hills, separates the Antequera depression from the Malaga Mountains on the north and the Guadalhorce valley to the south. The mountain range joins the Ronda highland on the western extreme. From the Sierra de las Nieves the relief extends in two directions: to the north the Prieta-Alcaparaín and the Blanquilla-Merinos separate the Guadalhorce Valley from the Ronda depression, and towards the south there is the union with the coastal mountain range and the Cadiz highland, where there are the Guadiaro and Genal valleys.

On the coastal mountain range, the province of Malaga’s relief extends from west to east over the Canucha, Blanca, Alpujata and Mijas Sierras, leaving the Guadalhorce valley to the north and the western Costa del Sol to the south. After crossing the Guadalhorce river, there is a new relief complex which gives character to the territory and extends to the foot of the Tejeda and Almijara sierras, on the eastern border of the province. This relief is the Malaga Mountains and the Axarquia which have generally smooth forms which often reach the coast with plains in the Axarquia domains. In this region there is also another important complex which is the Tejeda and Almijara sierras which separate the province of Malaga with Granada, enclosing the territory with a new mountain barrier which extends from the limestone central range to the sea.