Andalusia is the most populated and second largest of the seventeen autonomous communities that constitute
Spain. Its capital is
Seville.
Its geography - especially of the western provinces - is dominated by the fertile valley of the
Guadalquivir river and his numerous tributaries. The depression of the valley separates the
Sierra Morena mountains in the north from the
Bética ranges in the southeast. Half of the andalusian surface is mountainous, one third on a level of more than 600 meter altitude and even 46 peaks are higher than 1.000 meters. The highest mountain of the spanish peninsula is situated in the
Sierra Nevada mountains: the
Mulhacén (3481 meters).
