Mont-Perdu - Pyrénées, Cirque d'Estaubé

Reference : FR046

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Size : 10 x 15 cm

"Pyrénées - Le Cirque d'Estaubé"

Location of CIRQUE D'ESTAUBE in FRANCE

The Cirque d'Estaubé is a cirque in the central Pyrenees in the Pyrenees National Park, forming the frontier between France and Spain. The cirque lies 4 km to the east of its more famous neighbour, the Cirque de Gavarnie, which is accessible via the Hourquette d'Alans (2 430 m) ; the Marboré valley is reached via the Brèche de Tuquerouye (Tuca Arroja) (2 666 m), where there is a small CAF hut.

The Gave d'Estaubé descends north from the cirque, first flowing into a small reservoir, the Barrage des Gloriettes (1 668 m), then into the main Héas valley.

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