El subbético de Córdoba

Abstract

The southern Cordovan mountains form part of the central sector of the Sub-Baetic Range, flanking the Guadalquivir fields. The landscape is physically irregular having high limy masses alternating with marl valleys and basins which feed very heterogeneous calcimorphic soil. The climate is mediterranean and somewhat "continentalized", and vegetation is xerotermomediterranean. The essentially agrarian human activity takes refuge on the hillsides and in the marl basins. The population was quite progresive and numerous until 1950, but has presently become regressive being very much affected by emigration. The agrarian structure is unequal, but not so much as in other Andalusian districts. Olives, the fundamental crop, is practically the exclusive product. It shows technical, economical and human problems (seasonal work stoppage). Profit is low or negative and marketing is defficient.