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ARTICLES RELATED TO Pyrenees - Natural resources | | | |  Pyrenees - Natural resources: Encyclopedia II - Pyrenees - Natural resourcesThe metallic ores of the Pyrenees are not in general of much importance, though there was considerable iron mines at Vie de Sos in Ariège and at the foot of Canigou in Pyrénées-Orientales. Coal deposits capable of being profitably worked are situated chiefly on the Spanish slopes but the French side has numerous beds of lignite. The open pitt if Trimoun (Ariège) is one of the greatest source of talc in Europe.
Mineral springs are abundant and very remarkable, and specially noteworthy are the hot springs, in which the Alps, on the ...
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| | | | Pyrenees - Natural resources: Encyclopedia II - Pyrenees - Geography The Pyrenees are part of the following French départements, from east to west: Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude, Ariège, Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées, and Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
The Pyrenees are also part of the following Spanish provinces, from east to west: Girona, Barcelona, Lleida, Huesca, Zaragoza, Navarre, and Guipúzcoa.
Finally, the Pyrenees are also part of the independent principality of Andorra.
The Pyrenees are typically divided into three sections: the Central, the ...
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| | | | Pyrenees - Natural resources: Encyclopedia II - Pyrenees - Sports Both sides of the Pyrenees are popular spots for winters sports, like alpine skiing and mountaineering. Some resorts are Formigal, Panticosa, Baqueira-Beret. Pyrena is a mushing competition held in the Pyrenees.
In the summer and autumn, the Pyrenees are featured in two of the sport of cycling's grand tours, the Tour de France held annually in July and La Vuelta a España held in September. The stages held in the Pyrenees are often the defining moments of both tours, drawing hundreds of tho ...
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| | | | Pyrenees - Natural resources: Encyclopedia II - Pyrenees - Summits THe highest point of the Pyrenees is the Aneto (3,404 m), located on the Spanish side.
Pyrenees - Highest summits.
Aneto (3,404 m)
Posets (3,375 m)
Monte Perdido (3,355 m)
Pic Maudit (3,350 m)
Pic du Cylindre (3,328 m)
Pic de la Maladeta (3,308 m)
Vignemale (Pique Longue) (3,298 m)
Pyrenees - The others above 3000 m.
Clot de la Hount (3,289 m)
Pic du Marboré (3,248 m)
Pic de Cerbi ...
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| | | | Pyrenees - Natural resources: Encyclopedia II - Pyrenees - Demographics The ethnology, folklore, institutions and history of the Pyrenean region form an interesting study: see Andorra; Aragon; Ariege; Basque Country; Béarn; Catalonia; Navarre; Roussillon.
For their history, see also Almogavars, Marca Hispanica.
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| | | | Pyrenees - Natural resources: Encyclopedia II - Pyrenees - Flora and fauna A still more marked effect of the preponderance of rainfall in the western half of the chain is seen in the aspect of the vegetation. The lower mountains in the extreme west are very well wooded, but the extent of forest declines eastwards, and the eastern Pyrenees are peculiarly wild and barren, all the more since it is in this part of the chain that granitic masses prevail. There is a change, moreover, in the composition of the flora in passing from west to east. In the west the flora, at least in the north, resembles that of central Europ ...
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| | | | Pyrenees - Natural resources: Encyclopedia II - Pyrenees - Landscape Conspicuous features of Pyrenean scenery are:
the absence of great lakes, such as fill the lateral valleys of the Alps
the rarity and great elevation of passes
the large number of the mountain torrents locally called gaves, which often form lofty waterfalls, surpassed in Europe only by those of Scandinavia
the frequency with which the upper end of a valley assumes the form of a semicircle of precipitous cliffs, ...
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| | | | Pyrenees - Natural resources: Encyclopedia II - Pyrenees - Geology The Pyrenees are older than the Alps: their sediments were first deposited in coastal basins during the Paleozoic and Mesozoic eras. In the Lower Cretaceous period, the Gulf of Gascony (Bay of Biscay ) fanned out, pushing Spain against France and putting large layers of sediment in a vice grip. The intense pressure and uplifting of the Earth's crust first affected the eastern part and stretched progressively to the entire cha ...
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