Mont Bégo ( it, Monte Bego; lij, Monte Begu) is a mountain in the

Mercantour Mercantour National Park (french: Parc national du Mercantour) a French national park located in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and Alpes-Maritimes departments. Since it was created in 1979, the park has proven popular, with 800,000 visitors ann ...

massif of the Maritime Alps, in southern France, with an elevation of . It is included in the

Vallée des Merveilles Vallée is a French surname. Notable people with the surname include: * André Vallée (1930–2015), Canadian Roman Catholic bishop * Anne Vallée (born 1958), Canadian biologist * Bernard Vallée (born 1945), French fencer *Brigitte Vallée (born ...

("Valley of Marvels").

Etymology

The name derives from the ancient Indo-European root ''beg'', meaning "divine"; it was, in fact a sacred area to the

Liguri The Ligures (singular Ligur; Italian: liguri; English: Ligurians) were an ancient people after whom Liguria, a region of present-day north-western Italy, is named. Ancient Liguria corresponded more or less to the current Italian regio ...

tribe, together with the

Monte Beigua Monte Beigua (also in Ligurian: ''Monte Peigoa'') is a mountain in the Ligurian Apennines in Liguria, northern Italy, between the two communes of Varazze and Sassello. Geography The mountain, at 1,287 m, is the highest peak in the so-c ...

and

Monte Sagro Monte Sagro is a mountain in the Alpi Apuane, in Tuscany, central Italy, overlooking the city of Carrara. It is located in the northern part of the range, and, being mostly composed of marble of renowned quality, is home to several quarries. ...

Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...

Geology

It is mostly composed of conglomerates from the

Permian The Permian ( ) is a geologic period and System (stratigraphy), 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.

SOIUSA classification

According to the

SOIUSA Alps by SOIUSA. SOIUSA (an acronym for - English: ''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps-ISMSA'') is a proposal for a new classification system of the Alps from the geographic and toponomastic point of view. It was designe ...

(''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps'') the mountain can be classified in the following way: * main part =

Western Alps The Western Alps are the western part of the Alpine Range including the southeastern part of France (e.g. Savoie), the whole of Monaco, the northwestern part of Italy (i.e. Piedmont and the Aosta Valley) and the southwestern part of Switzerland ( ...

* major sector = South Western Alps * section = Maritime Alps * subsection = ( Fr:Alpes Maritimes d.l.s.l./ It:Alpi Marittime) * supergroup = ( Fr:Massif Gelas-Grand Capelet/ It:Gelas-Grand Capelet) * group = ( Fr:Chaîne Basto-Grand Capelet/ It:Costiera Basto-Grand Capelet) * subgroup = ( Fr:Nœud du Mont Bego/ It:Nodo del Monte Bego) * code = I/A-2.1-A.3.e

References

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