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  2. Pyrenees - Wikipedia

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    The Pyrenees [1] are a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. They extend nearly 500 km (310 mi) from their union with the Cantabrian Mountains to Cap de Creus on the Mediterranean coast, reaching a maximum altitude of 3,404 metres (11,168 ft) at the peak of Aneto .

  3. Hautes-Pyrénées - Wikipedia

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    The area is a nearly-permanent fixture on the Tour de France's itinerary, with significantly difficult passes such as the Tourmalet, the Aubisque and the Soulor. A jazz festival is held each year in Luz-Saint-Sauveur: Jazz a Luz. Tarbes hosts an annual horse festival, Equestria, and a Tango festival, Tarbes en Tango. [citation needed]

  4. Midi-Pyrénées - Wikipedia

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    Inhabitants of the region share common cultural or social features, some of them not just particular to Midi-Pyrénées, but common to the whole of southwest France, such as an interest in Rugby union: the south-west of France is even called The Land of the Oval Ball (French: Pays de l'Ovalie). There are images that come spontaneously to the ...

  5. Pyrénées-Orientales - Wikipedia

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    During the nineteenth century, Pyrénées-Orientales proved one of the most consistently republican departments in France. The intellectual and republican politician François Arago , who, during the early months of the short-lived Second Republic in 1848, was briefly de facto Head of state , came from Estagel in the east of the department.

  6. Pyrenees conifer and mixed forests - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  7. Geography of France - Wikipedia

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    A topographic map of the Republic, excluding all the overseas departments and territories Simplified physical map. The geography of France consists of a terrain that is mostly flat plains or gently rolling hills in the north and the west and mountainous in the south (including the Massif Central and the Pyrenees) and the east (the country's highest points being in the Alps).

  8. Module:Location map/data/France Midi-Pyrénées - Wikipedia

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    5.2 Location map many, using relief map (image1) 5.3 Location map+, using AlternativeMap. 6 See also. ... Module: Location map/data/France Midi-Pyrénées. 6 languages.

  9. Pyrénées-Atlantiques - Wikipedia

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    Pyrénées-Atlantiques (French pronunciation: [pi.ʁe.nez‿at.lɑ̃.tik] ⓘ; Gascon Occitan: Pirenèus Atlantics; Basque: Pirinio Atlantikoak) is a department located in the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the southwest corner of metropolitan France. Named after the Pyrenees mountain range and the Atlantic Ocean, it covers the French Basque ...