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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 .
Béarn (US: / b eɪ ˈ ɑːr n /; [1] [2] French: ⓘ; Occitan: Bearn or Biarn; Basque: Bearno or Biarno; Latin: Benearnia or Bearnia) is one of the traditional provinces of France, located in the Pyrenees mountains and in the plain at their feet, in Southwestern France.
The Cantabrian brown bear now survives further west in the Cantabrian Mountains. [4] Starting in 1996, the French government reintroduced Eurasian brown bears from Slovenia to the French Pyrenees. [5] As of 2019, there were 40 to 50 brown bears in the Pyrenees. [6] The Pyrenean ibex (Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica) went extinct in 2000. [2]
This month, the route which starts in France’s Ariege Pyrenees, once again echoed to footfalls as 87 people climbed their way from France to Spain, including descendants of those who made their ...
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 ...
Pyrene was a very beautiful princess, daughter of king Bebryx or Bebrycius of the Bebryces, an ancient people living on both sides of the Pyrenees which divided Spain from Gaul. [ a ] One day the hero Heracles arrived in their court on his way to obtain the flock of Geryon .
Despite apparent cultural and linguistic connections to , the region of Aquitania extended only to the Pyrenees according to Caesar: Aquitania extends from the river Garonne to the Pyrenaean mountains and to that part of the ocean which is near Hispania: it looks between the setting of the sun, and the north star. [4]
They found certain mountain ranges, including the Pyrenees, the European Alps and parts of the Himalayas, offered good conditions for generating white hydrogen as large volumes of mantle rock were ...