# What is the name of the large plain in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula?

Question 3004 · Task 3 · Territorial organisation of Spain. Physical and political geography · CCSE 2026

**In Spanish, as in the exam:** ¿Cómo se llama la extensa llanura situada en el centro de la península ibérica?

- a) Marisma. (Marisma (marsh).)
- b) Cordillera. (Cordillera (mountain range).)
- c) Meseta. (Meseta (plateau).) · Right answer

**Right answer:** c) Meseta.

## Why

The Meseta is a large, high plain that covers the centre of the Iberian Peninsula. The Sistema Central (Central System mountains) crosses it and divides it into two parts. A cordillera is a chain of mountains, and a marisma is low, flooded land near the sea.

Question 3004 of the Manual de preparación de la prueba CCSE 2026 © Instituto Cervantes: https://cervantes.org/sites/public/produccion/files/2026-10/manual-preparacion-prueba-ccse-2026.pdf

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