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Canet-en-Roussillon (French pronunciation: [kane ɑ̃ ʁusijɔ̃]; Catalan: Canet de Rosselló, [kəˈnɛt ˈde rusəˈʎo]; Occitan: Canet de Rosselhon, [kaˈnet de ruseˈʎu]) is a commune and town in the French department of the Pyrénées-Orientales, administrative region of Occitania. [3]
Gavarnie (French pronunciation:; Occitan: Gavarnia) is a former commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department, Southwestern France. [2] On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Gavarnie-Gèdre. [3]
Lourdes is located in southern France in the foothills of the Pyrenees mountains near the prime meridian. It is overlooked from the south by the Pyrenean peaks of Aneto , Montaigu , and Vignemale (3,298 m or 10,820 ft ), while around the town there are three summits reaching up to 1,000 m (3,281 ft) which are known as the Béout , the Petit Jer ...
It is the only important town, and only the towns of Canet-en-Roussillon, Saint-Estève, Saint-Cyprien, Argelès-sur-Mer, Cabestany and Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque exceed 10,000 inhabitants. Other important towns are Rivesaltes , Bompas , Pia , Thuir , Céret , Elne , Le Soler , Prades and Toulouges , each with between 6,500 and 10,000 ...
The observatory is located very close to the Greenwich meridian. Saturn's moon Helene (Saturn XII or Dione B), was discovered by French astronomers Pierre Laques and Jean Lecacheux in 1980 from ground-based observations at Pic du Midi, [7] [8] and named Helene in 1988. It is also a trojan moon of Dione.
Pyrenees_topographic_map-fr.svg: Eric Gaba (Sting - fr:Sting) derivative work: RedWolf ( talk ) This is a retouched picture , which means that it has been digitally altered from its original version.
It is one of the three valleys located in the historic region of upper Béarn, along with the Ossau Valley to the east and Barétous Valley to the west. The valley of Aspe stretches for 25 miles along the river Gave d'Aspe , roughly going from the town of Escot to the Spanish border where it meets the Aragon Valley, named after the Spanish river .
Lac Gentau is located in Pyrénées-Atlantiques, as are the Lacs de Carnau.d The Pyrenees mountain range crosses the department from east to west from the Col d'Aubisque to the mouth of the Bidasoa at Hendaye. The border with Spain follows the Pyrenean chain.