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Aragon borders
France in the north, Catalonia and Valencia in the east, Castile-La Mancha
in the south, and Castile and Leon, La Rioja and historic Navarre in the
west. The region can be separated into three different areas: the central
area consisting of the Ebro basin, the northern area where the Pyrenees lie,
and the area made up of the Iberian mountain range. The Ebro basin is a vast
flat lowland arising around the axis formed by the Ebro river, bordering
with the Pyrenees in the north and with the Iberian mountain range both in
the northwest and southeast of the region. The Pyrenees reaches its highest
peaks in Aragon, which include Aneto (3,404 m), Monte Perdido (3,355 m),
Maladeta (3,308 m), Tres Sorores (3,353 m) and Posets (3,375 m). The Iberian
mountain range stretches over most of the south eastern part of the province
of Zaragoza and over most of the province of Teruel. The most notable peaks
are Moncayo (2,315 m) in the north and the summits of the Universales
mountains (1,617 m) and the Javalambre sierra (2,020 m) in the south.
Aragon's water network is marked by the Ebro river basin. The tributaries
that flow from the Pyrenees have larger quantities of water in them, than
those deriving from the Iberian mountain range. The region of Teruel, lies
south of the Albarracin and Gudar sierras, located in the Guadalaviar-Turia
and Mijares river basins.
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