Its southern and southeastern limit is within Alcalà de Xivert's municipal term.

The Talaies d'Alcalà mountains form a natural boundary at the southeastern end of the range.

The range stretches inland in a NE - SW direction east of Sant Mateu and La Salzadella.

The intermittent river Rambla d'Alcalà has its origin in the Serra de la Vall d'Àngel.

This mountain range was the scenario of violent battles both during the Third Carlist War (1872–76) in the 19th century[3] and again in 1938 during the Spanish Civil War when rebel faction troops, after splitting the Spanish Republican government territory in two, tried in vain to reach Valencia, for the practically defeated Republican army opposed ferocious resistance in these mountains.