Cantabrian chain of mountains

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The Cantabrian chain of mountains or mount Cantabrian is a mountainous system of the Spain north it roams parallels to the Bay of Biscay. It has a longitude of 480 kilometers from the Basque depression until the Galician mass -Leonés, by passing by the peaks of Europe. The chain of mountains is put in the autonomous communities of Basque country, Cantabria, princedom of Asturias and wool coating and lion and represents the limit for the south of the Spain call humid or green. While that in your flowing south and from the plateau scarcely exists unevenness, in the flowing north the unevenness is enough accused for the proximity to the sea, it do it that the rivers, of torrential character, save the slope fited fence in in form of v of marked sides. Your summits exceed the 2.000 meters in the sections more accused of Asturias, the north of lion and Palencia and in the eastern area of Cantabria. The dominant winds, of oceanic origin, it collide with the chain of mountains, ascending and by condensing as a result of the cooling. Due to the Foehn effect produce abundant precipitations in the flowing Cantabrian north ( of until 2.000 mm annual ) and for when the winds go down towards the southern slope are already dry, by originating a more arid climate.http ://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordillera_Cant%C3 %A1brica

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