Lost Pyrenees-mount

See also: Mount Lost (homonymy)

Name Pyrenees-Mount Lost indicates the vast transborder mountainous unit, between the France and the Spain, registered since 1997 on the list of the “world heritage” of UNESCO under the natural landscapes and the cultural landscapes.

In 1995, France had proposed the name “Solid mass Mount Lost-Very Serols”, followed by Spain in 1997 with “ Monte Perdido: Circos there Cañones ”. A first attempt at compromise had suggested “Lost Mount/Gavarnie”, before is not finally adopted the current proposal.

The whole of the Lost Pyrenees-Mount classified world heritage includes:

  • a part National park of the Pyrenees: circuses of Gavarnie, Estaubé, Troumouse and Barroude and some territories located in peripheral zone of the park on the communes of Aragnouet, Gavarnie and Gèdre.

  • the Ordesa National park Assembles Perdido there (Aragon) and some adjacent zones on the territories of, and.

In France, in the Hautes-Pyrénées, the Circus of Gavarnie, of Estaubé and Troumouse as well as the wall of Barroude offer particular aspects of this site of high mountain. They are circuses of glacial origin, with the high escarpées walls. The installation of the pastures of medium mountains, of the barns of altitude is a witness of a agro-pastoral activity still present.

In Spain, in the province of Aragon, the canyons of, of and of are among deepest of Europe. The landscapes of average altitude of this slope, worked during the centuries by agriculture in terrace and the pastoral life, are the still alive marks of a remarkable adaptation of the shepherds to the requirements of this medium.

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External bonds and documents

  • MPPM - Mount-Lost World heritage

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