2. What’s the montseny?
The Nature reserve of the Montseny is one of 12
natural spaces that manages the Deputation of
Barcelona in Catalonia (Spain) and places in the
Mountain chain prelitoral Catalan, of that it is
the highest clump. It is placed between the
regions of Osona, Vallés Oriental and La selva.
3. Stand out the pronounced reliefs that he
presents and the rich ecological variety. For this
reason in 1978 the UNESCO it declared
reservation of the biosphere. Nowadays it is
managed by the Deputation of Barcelona and
the Deputation of Gerona.
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4. This nature reserve is the most ancient of Catalonia and
also he is one of the most important, since in a
relatively limited zone they find vegetable typical
communities of three big European biomas: the
Mediterranean one, the euroSiberian one and the
boreoalpino.
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5. SITUATION OF THE MONTSENY
The Nature reserve of the Montseny is to
approximately 50 km from Barcelona and occupies an
extension of 30.120 ha distributed between eighteen
municipalities that belong to three regions (Osona, la
Selva and the Vallés Oriental). His natural limits are
Arbúcies, the high courses of her Major was laughing
and of the river Gurri, the Congost and the page of the
Vallés.
7. RIVERS THAT PASS NEAR THE
MONTSENY
La Tordera El Congost
Riera
d'Arbúcies
8. VEGETATION
There are reproduced the vegetable formations
typical of the Mediterranean in the low parts
(groves of evergreen oaks, alcornocales and
pinegroves), of the medium rainy mountain
more above (grove of evergreen oaks
montañero and oakwoods), of Central European
environments over 1.000 m (beeches and firs)
and, even, of subAlpine environments in the
summits (bushes and meadows).
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10. WEATHER
The rough relief and the orientation do that the climate
is 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. Montseny's
vegetation also is very differentiated, depending on the
altitude.
12. The village of the Montseny
• Montseny's municipality, known former with
the name of the holder of his parish, Holy
Julià de Montseny, has nowadays an
extension of 27,02 km ², is placed to the
southern slope of the mountain of the
Montseny and is the only people of the
clump that supports the name.
13. Socio-economic information
Traditionally, the people of Montseny had based
his economy on the agriculture and the forest
exploitation, complemented, on a low degree,
by the ranching. The exploitation of the forest,
of which he was taking advantage practically of
everything, was also a prominent activity for
centuries.
