| Summary: | Article in Spanish, Abstracts in English, Spanish and German.We introduce the article originally published in the German periodical Hertha in 1825, in which Alexander von Humboldt made comments on his trip to Spain and on the geographic study of the plateau he had undertaken, with an introductory essay that presents the Spanish travel in its context. Due to the precise scientific argument used and the given barometric levels and topographic profile of the Iberian penninsula, we have considered the translation into Spanish of Über die Gestalt und das Klima des Hochlandes in der iberischen Halbinsel (Sobre la configuración y el clima de la meseta de la Península Ibérica) as necessary. The way in which Alexander von Humboldt presented his research upon the penninsula is a rather peculiar one since, in spite of the strictly scientific style used in his writings, he leads the reader by using a letter to his editor, Professor Berghaus, and inserts excerpts from his diary as well as data the he had obtained from his Spanish correspondents.
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