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La Sagra seen from Sierra Seca
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| Country | Spain |
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| State | Andalusia, Murcia, Valencian Community |
| Part of | Baetic System |
| Highest point | La Sagra |
| - elevation | 2,382 m (7,815 ft) |
The Prebaetic System (Spanish: Sistemas Prebéticos, also often referred to simply as Prebético[1]) is a system of mountain ranges that forms the northernmost prolongation of the Baetic System in the southern Iberian Peninsula. Although it is sometimes referred to as Cordillera Prebética, it is not a proper cordillera, or continuous alignment of ranges, but a broken system of mountain ranges that runs along eastern interior Andalusia, across the Region of Murcia, reaching the Mediterranean Sea shores in the southern Valencian Community.[2]
Its highest point is La Sagra, Sierra de la Sagra; other high ranges are Sierra de Segura and Sierra de Cazorla. The Sierra de María runs across the Prebaetic System and the Cordillera Penibética.
This orographical unit shares similar characteristics to its parent system, the Subbaetic Mountain Range but is located farther inland and is absent in the western section. The materials that compose it were formed in a relatively shallow sea.[3] The Iberian System rises north of the eastern part of the Prebaetic System.
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Some of The mountain ranges that make up the Prebético complex are, from west to east: