Mounts of the Cantal

The mounts of the Cantal form a mountainous solid mass with the mid-west of the the Massif Central made up of the vestiges of largest the visible Strato-volcan of Europe, from which the installation began approximately 13 million years ago and from which the last eruptions are gone back to approximately 2 million years | identifiant= | observatoire= | latitude=45.092 | longitude=2.695 }}

The mounts of the Cantal constitute the eroded remainders of old a Stratovolcan now extinct.

Demography and economy

Before the 13th century, the forest covered the whole of the solid mass, but cleared by the shepherds, it left room to the pastures where one meets the cows of race Salers whose milk is used to make cheese of cantal

In the valleys are cities and villages like Aurillac, Salers, Murat and Vic-on-Cère. Romance churches, and castles like the castle of Anjony with Tournemire.

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