Sub-Pyrenees
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The Sub-Pyrenees are a chain of mountains in Spain
Spain
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. They form a section of the southern foothills
Foothills
Foothills are geographically defined as gradual increases in elevation at the base of a mountain range. They are a transition zone between plains and low relief hills to the adjacent topographically high mountains.-Examples:...

 of the Pyrenees
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain...

. They are located at the eastern end of the Pre-Pyrenees
Pre-Pyrenees
The Pre-Pyrenees are the foothills of the Pyrenees.-Description:As a mountainous system the Pre-Pyrenees are part of the Pyrenees. They run parallel to the main mountain range in a west to east direction...

, west of the Catalan Transversal Range
Catalan Transversal Range
The Catalan Transversal Range is a system of minor mountain ranges at the eastern end of the Pre-Pyrenees, between the Osona and Garrotxa comarques...

, between the lower Ripollès
Ripollès
Ripollès is a comarca in Catalonia, Spain. It is located in the Ribes and Camprodon river valleys. , its population is 25,744, about 40% of whom live in the capital, Ripoll....

 and an area of the high Garrotxa
Garrotxa
Garrotxa is a comarca in Catalonia, Spain. Its population in 2001 was 47,747, more than half of them in the capital city of Olot. It is roughly equivalent to the historical comarca of Besalú.-Geography:...

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The Sub-Pyrenees consist of a series of parallel mountain ranges aligned in an east-west direction. Their shape is smooth and they are mostly covered with forest
Forest
A forest, also referred to as a wood or the woods, is an area with a high density of trees. As with cities, depending where you are in the world, what is considered a forest may vary significantly in size and have various classification according to how and what of the forest is composed...

. They are cut transversally by the Ter River
Ter River
The Ter is a river in Catalonia that rises in Ulldeter at an approximate altitude of 2400 meters, at the foot of a glacial cirque delimited by the nearby peaks of el Bastiments, el Gra de Fajol, or el Pic de la Dona...

, between the Sant Amand
Sant Amand
Sant Amand or Puig de Sant Amand is a mountain of Catalonia, Spain. It has an altitude of 1,851 metres above sea level....

 (1,851 m) anticline and Bellmunt
Bellmunt (Sant Pere de Torelló)
Bellmunt is a mountain of Catalonia, Spain. It has an altitude of 1246 metres above sea level.This mountain dominates the landscape of the Plain of Vic....

 (1,515 m), the mountain massif rising over the Plain of Vic
Plain of Vic
The Plain of Vic is a 30 km long depression located at the eastern end of the Catalan Central Depression in the Osona comarca. It is named after the town of Vic, an important and ancient urban center in the region that lies in the midst of the plain...

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The term Subpirineu was first used by Catalan geographer Lluís Solé i Sabarís in 1938, who justified the separateness of the Sub-Pyrenees from the Pre-Pyrenees and the Transversal Range on the basis of the material composition of the mountains and the relatively more recent character of the anticline
Anticline
In structural geology, an anticline is a fold that is convex up and has its oldest beds at its core. The term is not to be confused with antiform, which is a purely descriptive term for any fold that is convex up. Therefore if age relationships In structural geology, an anticline is a fold that is...

and the evidence of fractures. The name "Sub-Pyrenees" was systematically accepted in the 1958 work Geografia de Catalunya.

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