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. They are cut transversally by the
Ter River, between the
Sant Amand (1,851 m) anticline and
Bellmunt (1,515 m), the mountain massif rising over the
Plain of Vic. The term
Subpirineu was first used in 1938 by Catalan
geographer and
geologist Lluís Solé. He 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, as well as the relatively more recent character of the
anticline and the evidence of fractures. The name "Sub-Pyrenees" was systematically accepted in the 1958 work
Geografia de Catalunya. ==See also==