Mont-Perdu - Pyrenees, the great cirques : Gavarnie, Estaubé, Troumouse

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"Pyrénées, les cirques de Gavarnie, d'Estaubé et de Troumouse"

Location of the cirques in FRANCE

The cirques of Gavarnie, Estaubé and Troumouse
are the three major cirques walls of France side
of the site PYRENEES - MONT PERDU.

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.

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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.

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The Cirque de Troumouse is one of the major cirques in Pyrenees and Europe.

As the three major cirques walls of France side
of the site PYRENEES - MONT PERDU,
the cirques of Gavarnie, Estaubé and Troumouse
are registered as UNESCO w.h.s

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.