Mainly mountainous region, is constituted by a 64% of mountains and rest 36% of hills. The plain is constituted by one narrow coastal strip. The region presents/displays highest summits of the Apennines, with the Great Sasso of Italy with 2914 ms and the bulk of the Maiella of 2791 ms. The main rivers are Aterno-Pescara, Sangro, the Tronto, the Trigno, the Tordino, the Vomano and the high course of the Liri that ends at the Tirrenean Sea.
During the winter sports resort on the mountain a sport tourism characterized by the ski can be praticar (they practice the reduction, I found, the ski of mountain climbing and "snowboard"). Roccaraso, Rivisondoli, Imperatore Field, Field Felice and Ovindoli in the province of "L'Aquila", Prato Forest and Prati I gave Tivo in the one of Teramo, Passo Lanciano-Maielletta between those of Pescara and Chieti offers very modern accommodating and sport structures. During the summer the mountain of Abruzo has a very particular enchantment thanks to the National and Regional Parks, to the protected areas, the natural oases where they live the chamois, the lynx, áquila, the bear. The three National Parks, the Regional base, the twenty protected areas that are mainly in the regional territory, represent 33% of protected total surface that is the highest percentage of Europe. The National Park of Abruzo more ago than 70 years determined the fondamentos for a future established on the ecology and the respect by the atmosphere. The great National Park of the Great Sasso Montes of the Laga represents the ceiling of the Appennino. The National Park of the Maiella conserves the nature and the culture that have given form to the different artisan activities. The Regional base of the Sirente Velino includes/understands the third top of the Appennino. The other protected areas are natural reserves, like the lake of Penne, oasis of the WWF, abetes of Rosello, territorial parks like the sulfurosas sources on Lavino. The coast, that has been conexionado to mounts by means of valleys atraversadas by flumenes, has added to its original activity of the fish the one of the tourism. It of Abruzo is the coast that satisfies to all: low and sandy from Martinsicuro to Francavilla; with stumbling blocks and ports from San Vast Vito to and later the numerous nocturnal premises, hotels, parks of entertainment. The tourist port of Fished represents a modern datum point by all Adriatic Sea, example of everything what can offer a region where, by all the year, are made artistic, cultural and popular initiatives.