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Paglia Orba
The Paglia Orba (pronounced ) is a mountain peak in the Monte Cinto massif in Corsica. It rises to an altitude of , between the valleys of the Golo (in the Niolo) and the Cavicchia (in the Filosorma). Relatively isolated, this peak, notable for its characteristic tooth-shaped silhouette, dominates the Fango Valley and the west coast of the island. Straddling the municipalities of Albertacce and Manso, Paglia Orba is the second highest peak of the central chain and the Filosorma, behind Punta Minuta at . Geography With an altitude of , the Paglia Orba is located in the municipalities of Albertacce and Manso. It is nearly lower than Monte Cinto. The Golo, the longest river in Corsica, rises at its feet. On its slopes at an altitude of the Ruisseau Orba rises in the communal forest of Albertacce, which is a monoculture of laricio pines. Geology Unlike the other summits of the Cinto massif, which are formed mainly of volcanic rocks, the Paglia Orba is made up of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Capu Tafunatu
The Capu Tafunatu is a mountain in the department of Haute-Corse on the island of Corsica, France. It rises to an altitude of in the Niolo ''piève'' in the northwest of the island. Located in the Monte Cintu massif near the Paglia Orba, it rises southeast of Manso on the edge of the commune of Albertacce. Capu Tafunatu literally means "perforated head". The top of the mountain is pierced by an opening wide by , making it the largest natural arch in France. Geology Capu Tafunatu consists of alkaline rhyolite with ignimbrite facies, an igneous rock of the Monte Cinto annular volcano-plutonic complex, formed in the Permian. The formation of the "hole" is explained by tectonics. The inclined plane at the base of this cavity is an oblique fault which, intersecting the rocky blade of the summit, weakened it and caused it to collapse. In popular culture Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (1707–1788), in ''Histoire et théorie de la terre'' (History and Theory of the Earth), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Albertacce
Albertacce (; in Corsican ''E Lupertacce'', pronounced ) is a commune in the Haute-Corse department in the Corsica region of France. Geography upright=2.4, center, Panorama of Albertacce Albertacce is a commune of ''Niolu'' a long-inaccessible micro-region where invaders were never able to conquer the mountain people, a long bowl cut from the world where there are blond Corsicans with blue eyes and fair skin and has become today the kingdom of hiking. It is located in the heart of the Regional Natural Park of Corsica. Location Albertacce is located high in the Corsican mountains some 30 km in a direct line east by north-east of Porto on the west coast and 15 km west by north-west of Corte. The road distance is very substantially longer. Access to the commune is by a single road - the D84 - which branches west from the D18 road just north of Castirla. It then follows the mountain ridge south-west to the village of Albertacce. The D84 continues south west through t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haute-Corse
Haute-Corse (; co, Corsica suprana , or ; en, Upper Corsica) is (as of 2022) an administrative department of France, consisting of the northern part of the island of Corsica. The corresponding departmental territorial collectivity merged with that of Corse-du-Sud on 1 January 2018, forming the single territorial collectivity of Corsica, with territorial elections coinciding with the dissolution of the separate councils. However, even though its administrative powers were ceded to the new territorial collectivity, it continues to remain an administrative department in its own right. In 2019, it had a population of 181,933.Populations légales 2019: 2B Haute-Corse INSEE History [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte Cinto Massif
The Monte Cinto massif is one of the main massifs in the island of Corsica, France, taking its name from the highest mountain in Corsica, Monte Cinto. It is the northernmost and highest of the four massifs that form the spine of the island. The massif is mostly in the Haute-Corse department, but the southwest of the massif is in the Corse-du-Sud department. Setting The island of Corsica essentially consists of a long chain of mountains divided into four massifs. From north to south these are the massifs of Monte Cinto, Monte Rotondo, Monte Renoso and Monte Incudine. The Monte Cinto massif is the highest at of elevation, followed by the massifs of Monte Rotondo, Monte Renoso and Monte Incudine. The main peaks are Monte Cinto, Punta Minuta, Paglia Orba, Monte Padro, Monte Traunato, Monte Corona, Capu a u Ceppu and Monte Grosso. The massif is bounded by the Forêt de Bonifatu and Forêt de Tartagine Melaja to the north, the Forêt de Pineto to the east and the Forêt de Valdu Ni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Permian
The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and stratigraphic system which spans 47 million years from the end of the Carboniferous Period million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Triassic Period 251.9 Mya. It is the last period of the Paleozoic Era; the following Triassic Period belongs to the Mesozoic Era. The concept of the Permian was introduced in 1841 by geologist Sir Roderick Murchison, who named it after the region of Perm in Russia. The Permian witnessed the diversification of the two groups of amniotes, the synapsids and the sauropsids ( reptiles). The world at the time was dominated by the supercontinent Pangaea, which had formed due to the collision of Euramerica and Gondwana during the Carboniferous. Pangaea was surrounded by the superocean Panthalassa. The Carboniferous rainforest collapse left behind vast regions of desert within the continental interior. Amniotes, which could better cope with these drier conditions, rose to dominance in place of their am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Golo (river)
The Golo (; ) is the longest river on the island of Corsica, France, at Course The Golo is long. It crosses the communes of Aiti, Albertacce, Bigorno, Bisinchi, Calacuccia, Campile, Campitello, Canavaggia, Casamaccioli, Castello-di-Rostino, Castirla, Corscia, Gavignano, Lento, Lucciana, Monte, Morosaglia, Olmo, Omessa, Piedigriggio, Prato-di-Giovellina, Prunelli-di-Casacconi, Saliceto, Valle-di-Rostino, Venzolasca, Vescovato, Vignale and Volpajola. The Golo's source is in the mountainous middle of the island, south of Monte Cinto. It flows generally northeast, through Calacuccia and Ponte-Leccia, and ends in the Tyrrhenian Sea approximately south of Bastia, near the Bastia – Poretta Airport. Its entire course is in the Haute-Corse ''département''. The river is dammed at Calacuccia to form the Lac de Calacuccia Lac de Calacuccia is a reservoir in the Haute-Corse department of France formed by damming the Golo river. It provides hydroelectric power and water ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fango (river)
The Fango ( co, Fangu) is a small coastal river in the department of Haute-Corse, Corsica, France. The Fango Valley was designated a biosphere reserve in 1977. It holds flora and fauna representative of all regions of Corsica from the coast to the highest mountains. Course The Fango is long. It crosses the communes of Galéria and Manso. The watershed of the river covers . It extends from Galéria to the Paglia Orba and from the Col de Marsolino to the Col de Palmarella. The Fango rises in the commune of Manso to the west of the Capo Tafonatu. Its tributaries drain the ridge line in the Monte Cinto massif of which the highest point is the Punta Minuta. In its upper reaches it is called the Ruisseau de Capu di Vetto. It runs in a northwest direction past Monte-Estreino, Barghana, Manso and Tuarelli to enter the Gulf of Caléria just north of the town of Galéria. From Barghiana to the coast the D351 road follows the river. Valley The mouth of the river is biologically very ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manso, Haute-Corse
Manso () is a commune in the Haute-Corse department of France on the island of Corsica. Population See also *Communes of the Haute-Corse department The following is a list of the 236 Communes of France, communes of the Haute-Corse Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020): References Communes of Haute-Corse Haute-Corse communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{HauteCorse-geo-stub ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Punta Minuta
Punta Minuta is a mountain in the department of Haute-Corse on the island of Corsica, France. It is in the Monte Cinto massif. Location The peak is in the commune of Albertacce, just south of the communes of Asco to the northeast and Manso to the northwest. The nearest road is the D147 to the north, which runs northwest from the village of Asco. Physical Punta Minuta is high and has a prominence of . It is isolated by from the slopes of its nearest higher neighbor, Monte Cinto. It is in the central chain of the Monte Cinto massif at a point where a ridge leads east to the Monte Cinto. It is in the ''Grande Barriere'', the crestline that runs from Monte Cinto westward to Paglia Orba. It is northeast of the Paglia Orba. Punta Minuta is drained to the west by tributaries of the Fango river, to the north by tributaries of the Asco river and to the south by tributaries of the Golo river. The southern side of the mountain is free of snow from May/June until September. The no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paglia Orba Et Calasima
Paglia is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Nicola Paglia (1197-1256), Italian Roman Catholic priest * Francesco Paglia (1636–1700), Italian painter * Antonio Paglia (1680–1747), Italian painter * Vincenzo Paglia (born 1945), Italian Roman Catholic bishop * Camille Paglia (born 1947), American social critic, author and teacher * Ernesto Paglia (born 1959), Brazilian television journalist See also * Paglia (river) * La Paglia La Paglia or LaPaglia is a surname or last name. Notable people with the surname include: *Anthony LaPaglia (born 1959), Australian actor, brother of Jonathan LaPaglia *César La Paglia (born 1979), Argentine football player *Jonathan LaPaglia (bor ..., a surname {{surname, Paglia Italian-language surnames ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monte Cinto
Monte Cinto ( co, Monte Cintu) is the highest mountain on the island of Corsica, a region of France. Geography The elevation of the mountain is and so is its prominence, making it one of the most prominent peaks in Europe. It is the highest peak of the Monte Cinto massif, one of the four main massifs in Corsica. Its location gives it a theoretical panorama of mountains on mainland Europe stretching from near Marseille to Rome. The most distant mountain theoretically visible is Monte Rosa in Italy, just west of north, approximately away.http://www.viewfinderpanoramas.org/panoramas/EUR/CINTO-N.gif History The first known ascent of Monte Cinto was on 6 June 1882, by a party led by Édouard Rochat who reached the summit via the mountain's southern slopes. On 26 May 1883 a party led by the English mountaineer Francis Fox Tuckett, and including the French guide François Devouassoud and the landscape painter Edward Theodore Compton, also ascended the mountain by the pass that ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laricio Pine
''Pinus nigra'', the Austrian pine or black pine, is a moderately variable species of pine, occurring across Southern Europe from the Iberian Peninsula to the eastern Mediterranean, on the Anatolian peninsula of Turkey, Corsica and Cyprus, as well as Crimea and in the high mountains of Northwest Africa. Description ''Pinus nigra'' is a large coniferous evergreen tree, growing to high at maturity and spreading to wide. The bark is gray to yellow-brown, and is widely split by flaking fissures into scaly plates, becoming increasingly fissured with age. The leaves ('needles') are thinner and more flexible in western populations. The ovulate and pollen cones appear from May to June. The mature seed cones are (rarely to 11 cm) long, with rounded scales; they ripen from green to pale gray-buff or yellow-buff in September to November, about 18 months after pollination. The seeds are dark gray, long, with a yellow-buff wing long; they are wind-dispersed when the cones open fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
