Map of Henares Area © Mark Wade

Name used for the Atlas mountain range in North Africa. Also used for a range of mountains in Guadalajara province.

The modern range of mountains in Spain with that name lie too far southwest of the route of the Infantes de Carrion to fit. (Latitude: 42.94052. Longitude: -4.05254).

• Book XI Chapter I:

  And when these five years were over tidings were spread far and near, which reached Valencia, that King Bucar the Miramamolin of Morocco, holding himself disgraced because the Cid Campeador had conquered him in the field of Quarto near unto Valencia, where he had slain or made prisoners all his people, and driven him into the sea, and made spoil of all the treasures which he had brought with him;...King Bucar calling these things to mind, had gone himself and stirred up the whole Paganism of Barbary, even as far as Montes Claros, to cross the sea again, and avenge himself if he could; and he had assembled so great a power that no man could devise their numbers.