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In Greek mythology, Pyrene is a princess who gave her name to the Pyrenees. The Greek historian Herodotus says Pyrene is the name of a town in Celtic Europe. [5] According to Silius Italicus, [6] she was the virgin daughter of Bebryx, a king in Mediterranean Gaul by whom the hero Hercules was given hospitality during his quest to steal the cattle of Geryon [7] during his famous Labours.
Most of the other mountains lie on or close to the border. The small country of Andorra is located in the eastern portion of the Pyrenees and is surrounded by Spain and France; its highest mountain – Coma Pedrosa at 2,942 metres (9,652 ft) – falls below the 3,000-metre threshold. The mountains are listed by height within each of the 11 ...
Europe's most significant geological feature is the dichotomy between the highlands and mountains of Southern Europe and a vast, partially underwater, northern plain ranging from Great Britain in the west to the Ural Mountains in the east. [citation needed] These two halves are separated by the mountain chains of the Pyrenees and the Alps ...
English: Topographic map in English of the Pyrenees Mountains. Note: The shaded relief is a raster image embedded in the SVG file. Français : Carte topographique des Pyrénées en english.
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; GPX (all coordinates) GPX (primary coordinates) ... Pages in category "Mountains of the Pyrenees"
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Pyrenees (13 C, 69 P) S. ... Upper Palatine Forest (2 C, 8 P) Pages in category "Mountain ranges of Europe"
The Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests is a temperate broadleaf and mixed forests ecoregion in southwestern Europe. It extends along the Pyrenees mountains which run east and west along the border between France and Spain , and includes all Andorra .
Module:Location map/data/Pyrenees is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Pyrenees. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.