Mont-Perdu - Le Cirque de Gavarnie

Reference : FR005

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Size : 10 x 15 cm

"Hautes-Pyrénées - Le Cirque de Gavarnie"

Location of GAVARNIE in FRANCE

The Cirque de Gavarnie is a famous example of a cirque in the central Pyrenees, in the Pyrenees National Park. The cirque is 800m wide (on the deepest point) and about 3000 m wide at the top.

Major features of the cirque are La Brèche de Roland and Gavarnie Falls.

As one of the three major cirque walls of France side
of the site PYRENEES - MONT PERDU,
the cirque of Gavarnie is registered as a UNESCO w.h.s
(the two other ones are the cirque of Estaubé
and the cirque of Troumouse).

UNESCO w.h.s. :

Pyrénées - Mont-Perdu

Date of inscription : 1997

This outstanding mountain landscape, which spans the contemporary national borders of France and Spain, is centred around the peak of Mount Perdu, a calcareous massif that rises to 3,352 m. The site, with a total area of 30,639 ha, includes two of Europe's largest and deepest canyons on the Spanish side and three major cirque walls on the more abrupt northern slopes with France, classic presentations of these geological landforms. The site is also a pastoral landscape reflecting an agricultural way of life that was once widespread in the upland regions of Europe but now survives only in this part of the Pyrénées. Thus it provides exceptional insights into past European society through its landscape of villages, farms, fields, upland pastures and mountain roads.