2. Whats the montseny?The Nature reserve of the Montseny is one
of 12natural spaces that manages the Deputation ofBarcelona in
Catalonia (Spain) and places in theMountain chain prelitoral
Catalan, of that it isthe highest clump. It is placed between
theregions of Osona, Valls Oriental and La selva.
3. Stand out the pronounced reliefs that hepresents and the
rich ecological variety. For thisreason in 1978 the UNESCO it
declaredreservation of the biosphere. Nowadays it ismanaged by the
Deputation of Barcelona andthe Deputation of Gerona.
4. This nature reserve is the most ancient ofCatalonia and also
he is one of the mostimportant, since in a relatively limited zone
theyfind vegetable typical communities of three bigEuropean biomas:
the Mediterranean one, theeuroSiberian one and the
boreoalpino.
5. SITUATION OF THE MONTSENYThe Nature reserve of the Montseny
is toapproximately 50 km from Barcelona andoccupies an extension of
30.120 ha distributedbetween eighteen municipalities that belong
tothree regions (Osona, la Selva and the VallsOriental). His
natural limits are Arbcies, thehigh courses of her Major was
laughing and ofthe river Gurri, the Congost and the page of
theValls.
6. A MAP OF THENATURALPARK
7. RIVERS THAT PASS NEAR THE MONTSENYLa TorderaEl Congost Riera
dArbcies
8. VEGETATIONThere are reproduced the vegetable
formationstypical of the Mediterranean in the low parts(groves of
evergreen oaks, alcornocales andpinegroves), of the medium rainy
mountainmore above (grove of evergreen oaksmontaero and oakwoods),
of Central Europeanenvironments over 1.000 m (beeches and firs)and,
even, of subAlpine environments in thesummits (bushes and
meadows).
9. WEATHERThe rough relief and the orientation do that the
climateis very diverse. The rigorous climate of the high mountain
does not have anything to see with the benign climate of the plains
and sunny terraces where one agrees the core of the people.
Montsenysvegetation also is very differentiated, depending on the
altitude.
10. ANIMALS
11. The village of the Montseny Montsenys municipality, known
former with the name of the holder of his parish, Holy Juli de
Montseny, has nowadays an extension of 27,02 km , is placed to the
southern slope of the mountain of the Montseny and is the only
people of the clump that supports the name.
12. Socio-economic informationTraditionally, the people of
Montseny had basedhis economy on the agriculture and the
forestexploitation, complemented, on a low degree,by the ranching.
The exploitation of the forest,of which he was taking advantage
practically ofeverything, was also a prominent activity
forcenturies.