La Cadena

The Sierra de Almijara is a rough mass of marble mountains with sharp ridges that stretches east from the Puerto de Cómpeta.^[3] The mountains contain narrow ridges separated by deep valleys cut by the streams and rivers, resulting in many small sub-basins.^[4] All of the park has the calcareous formations of the Subbética region, with marbles, shales, phyllites, etc.^[5] The area is rich in quartzite and gneiss over 300 million years old.^[6] The Sierra de Almijara holds one of the Spain's main sources of dolomitic marble.^[6] The marble gives white and gray tones to the ridges and ravines.^[7]