The origin of the name of the current Valencian Community was approved, with the Statute of Autonomy, on other traditionally used names, as Valencian Country (País Valencià) or Valencia. Historically it constituted an accession place for Iberians, Phoenicians, Greeks and Romans. The Arabs were conquered by Jaime I of Aragon, who established its definitive limits opposite to Castile. The improvement of the quality of Valencian life took place with the modernization of the irrigation and the technical advances in the 19th century.

Its mountains are of Alpine origin. Being treats of the last spurs of the Iberian System, in the northern part, and of the Andalusian System, in the southern part. In the north it dominates a slopes landscape, among which we prune to mention those of the Peñagolosa (1.813m). It follows a softer zone of foldings and limy dominion. More in the southern part the plaits and fractures dominate the landscape of perpendicular form to the coast. The fractures consist in a stuffed area of material, taken advantage for the human accession and the agrarian utilization. This form, from west to east, we find the relief, the plain and the coast.

Mountainous country and north plains, which connect with the Catalan mountain ranges. They begin with the Alto Maestrazgo, of limy slightly folded of the Cretaceous and generally of NO-NE direction. Bajo Maestrazgo placed towards the coast, is formed by a series of blocks trumped and sloping, parallel to the sea.

Mountain ranges and central plateaus. After the pit Teruel-Ademuz, there appears the Turia fitted into throats that pass for the high plateau. In the western part Cofrentes's valley meets volcanic glimpses, and in the south, Enguera's plaits, which announce the Andalusian mountain ranges.

The plains of the Turia and Júcar occupy an extension that goes from the mountain range to the sea. The torrential character of the rains make the ravines frequent.

Southern mountainous countries. They are the oriental end of the Andalusian - Levantine mountains and are divided in two sectors, in the northern part and to the south of Alcoy's pit. The north sector is of plaits of the Cretaceous, with abrupt fronts. The south sector has tectonic more blurred and thirst composes of longitudinal faults.

Corridors and southern plains, where they find the basins of Villena, Elda and Novelda, with well marked glacis of erosion. Towards the West there exist small parallel mountain ranges of NE-SO direction, as that of Crevillente

The climate is Mediterranean, with very dry summers and soft winters. The risk of flood takes place with the so called cold slug, in Autumn, giving place to frequent floods with grave consequences.

The north is more rainy as the driest and arid south. The distance to the sea, the altitude and the latitude imply thermal differences and rainfalls.

The snow and the frosts never take place on the coast, though in the interior they are relatively frequent, especially the frosts.

The vegetation is adapted to the aridity. In the high mountain they predominate over the sabinas, as in Peñagolosa and in Ademuz's corner. In the average altitudes the blockheads appear, on soils of silica, the holly-oak and the oaks, though the pine repopulation has made move back the grove of evergreen oaks. In the lands you get off the littoral, from Denia to Alicante, they predominate the palmetto and also the margalló, which is the only autochthonous palm in Europe. To the south of Alicante we find steppe vegetation, with hawthorns and palmettoes, which connect with the climate of the lower steppe of Murcia.

The rivers Turia and Júcar have provoked the great sedimentary plain of Valencia. Its contributions have fullfiled a small internal sea, up to the formation of the current Albufera. The rivers that have its origin out of this autonomy can have major wealths and more lengths. This owes to that they come from regions with bigger rainfalls. Among these rivers we prune to mention Mijares, Segura, Turia and Jucar, with its tributaries, the Cabriel and the Magro. The rest of the rivers, proceeding from the own region, are short, with a very irregular wealth, and up to coming to the sea they save big unevennesses.