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 this region of Ribagorza situated in the most eastern part of the Aragonese Pyrenees.

The granite massifs of Posets and Maladeta, declared a Natural Park with a surface area of 33267 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 metres, Maladeta with 3308 metres, the Perdiguera Peak of 3222 metres or Posets with 3375. The interior Mountain Ranges such as the massifs of Cotiella and the Turbon, on being crossed by river courses, have given rise to magnificent landscapes such as the narrow mountain passes of Obarra and Ventamillo. The majority of the shapes of the relief in the high mountain area of the Pyrenees have been produced by the action of the glaciers.

Occupied on many occasions by mountain lakes, almost a hundred of these glacier origin lakes, with blue waters and surrounded by steep walls, can remain frozen more than six months a year: Sein, Millares, Barbarisa, Balliberna or Batisielles are some of the most well known. Currently the Posets-Maladeta Park houses the majority of the Pyrenean glaciers protected by the figure of Natural Monuments and it is also a Special Protection Area for Birds. Hidden valleys brought about by glaciers can also be found such a Estos, Eriste or Gistain. Very wet valleys with great lumber wealth (pine, fir) and fauna wealth: otter, birds of prey such a golden eagle, the vulture, lammergeier, large game (chamois, roe deer, deer, wild boar).