Aragon Guide

From the high mountain tops to the last foothills of the outer mountain ranges, the magnificent mountain landscape plays a leading role in Ribagorza, the most eastern area of the Aragonese Pyrenees. The granite massifs of Posets and Maladeta, declared a Natural Park with a surface area of 33.267 hectares, house half the mountain tops of more than three thousand metres high of the Pyrenees and the greatest heights of the mountain range: Aneto with 3404 m, Maladeta with 3308 m, the Perdiguera Peak of 3222 m or Posests with 3375 m.

The Nature Reserve extends over the townships of Benasque, Gistain, Montanuy, Sahun and San Juan de Plan. It is situated at a great height, between 1,500 metres at the bottom of the valley and 3,404 metres at the summit of Aneto (the highest point of the Reserve), which makes this sector of the Pyrenean mountain range one of the most important high mountain ecosystems in the Iberian Peninsula. The valleys have glacial origins (Estos, Eriste, Vallibierna, Gistain) are very humid, have rich woodland (pines, firs) and wild fauna. These lands are inhabited by bears, otters, chamois, deer, roe deer, wild boar and birds of prey (golden eagle, vulture, bearded vulture).

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