The plain of Valencia is in the Iberian Peninsula, framed by secondary topographic relief of the Calderona hills and a series of Tertiary and more modest hills. It is a wide coastal corridor in the middle of the Valencian Mediterranean Oval, filled by Quaternary continental materials.

The Irrigation Canal of Montcada crosses the northern half of the plain of Valencia, a depression surrounded by coastal reliefs belonging to Iberian domain. To the North, the Sierra Calderona consists of an important Triassic spur with red sandstone outcrops of Bundsandstein, common reddish areas, crowned by calcareous materials from the Muschelkalk. To the South, between the Carraixet and the Túria, we find a landscape of wavy hills and fluvial terraces with a predominance of the bluish-white Miocene loam, the result of the deposition of marine materials during the tertiary marine transgression.
The transition of these reliefs towards the plains in uninterrupted succession is established by means of alluvial fans, piedmonts or lower slopes, the result of a Quaternary sequence of continental origin inputs. Near the sea, in the lowest lands, where several deep silt lagoons emerge, the coastal corridor of marshes is separated from the sea by a detached and receding sandbar.

MEDIEVAL PERIOD
(Al-Andalus) [711-1238]

MEDIEVAL PERIOD
(Kingdom of València) [1239-1453]

MODERN PERIOD [1454-1789]

CONTEMPORARY PERIOD [1790-2012]