Capital: Valencia.

Area: 23,255 km²

Provinces 3: Castellón, Valencia, Alicante

The Valencian Community holds a tremendous number of parks given its size. The coastline is around 500 kilometres and some of its mountains rise steeply from the coast. The highest peak is El Calderon at 1837 m part of the Sistema Iberica range. Various sierras offer a choice of cliffs to tempt experienced rock climbers.

Many of the sierras are wooded either with Holm oak, Kermes oak Cork oak or Aleppo pines trees. Deep river valleys shelter endemic plant life and the more exposed salt marshes and coastal zones contain specialist flora. Up to 200 micro-reserves are being designated to halt the decline in endemic plants such as Cistus heterophyllus subsp. Carthaginensis and Silene diclinis.

The Natural park of L’Albufera is a nature reserve of pine forest and freshwater lakes attracting a range of migratory birds. These wetlands are up to 6 km wide at one point. The water level can be controlled by sluice gates.

Citrus groves cover a large part of Valenciana and are an important part of the economy. (As is the coastal zone, Costa Blanca, with its beach tourism.)