Sierra del Mugrón

Historia

Sierra del Mugrón is a 16.6km long mountain range located between the Valle de Cofrentes (Vall de Cofrents) comarca, Valencian Community, and Almansa, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It is an isolated range between the Iberian System and the Cordillera Prebética. Its highest point is 1,209 m. The northern section of this range is within the Ayora (Aiora) municipal term, while the southern belongs to Almansa.There are remains of an Ancient Iberian settlement in Castellar de Meca, between Ayora and Alpera.This mountain range is a quiet lonely and isolated area with a sizeable amount of wildlife, foremost of which are the wildcat, boar, little bustard, Eurasian stone-curlew, peregrine falcon, European nightjar, black wheatear, common wood pigeon, Dartford warbler, red-legged partridge and Bonelli's eagle.