Talaies, the name of the range, means "watchtowers" in Catalan, which is derived from Arabic, and refers to ancient battles fought in the area since Iberian times.

The Talaies range stretches a few kilometres inland parallel to the Serra d'Irta and the Mediterranean coastline in a NE–SW direction south of the Vinaròs plain, its northern limit.

The Serra de la Vall d'Àngel mountains form a natural boundary further inland at the northwestern end of the Talaies.

Generally the eastern side of the range has more vegetation than the western owing to the influence of the sea breeze.

[1] It is a southern prolongation of the Catalan Pre-Coastal Range that formed 25 million years ago as part of the Alpine orogeny.