Sierra de Collserola

The Sierra de Collserola is a mountain keep running between the conduits Besos and Llobregat. It is a bit of the Catalan Coastal Range. These mountains segregate Barcelona from the Valles plain and their tallest zenith is the Tibidabo, at 512 m. Other central summits are: Turo del Puig Puig d'Olorda, Turo de Valldaura, Turo de la Magarola, Puig d'Ossa , and Puig Madrona. The valleys of the Llobregat and Besos Rivers, the plain of Barcelona and the Valles bowl, check the land furthest reaches of the massif Collserola. To spare the area, in 1987 the Parc de Collserola Park, which has a district of 84.65 km², was established. It is the greatest metropolitan stop on the planet - 8 times greater than the Bois de Boulogne in Paris, and 22 times greater than Central Park in New York.

It contains a wide assortment of Mediterranean common habitats, predominantly forested , despite the fact that there are additionally plenteous developments of low vegetation maquia. The overwhelming potential arrangement is the waterfront holm oaks oak tree stratum with a second durillo shrub layer and, in great piece of the l'Obac slant shady incline, the oak with cerrioid oak . However, because of human aggravation fires, field, and so forth the greater part of the mountain extend is presently secured by pine woods of white pine. On the sunniest incline, dry knolls proliferate, overwhelmed by grasses and where shrubs such as genista or torvisco grow. 6.4% of the domain of Collserola are development territories.