Pic d'Anie (
Basque
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Auñamendi) is a mountain of the
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees are a mountain range straddling the border of France and Spain. They extend nearly from their union with the Cantabrian Mountains to Cap de Creus on the Mediterranean coast, reaching a maximum elevation of at the peak of Aneto. ...
in France, located close to the Spanish border. It is high.
The mountain boasts an almost perfect
pyramid
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al shape and is surrounded by the spectacular
karst landscape
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of. ''Larra'', in the ''Larra-Belagua'' massif (
Navarre
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).
The three main access routes to the peak are: ''Belagua'' in Spain and ''Pierre-Saint Martin'' and
Lescun in the French department of
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pyrénées-Atlantiques (; Gascon language, Gascon Occitan language, Occitan: ''Pirenèus Atlantics''; ) is a Departments of France, department located in the Regions of France, region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine in the southwest corner of metropolitan ...
.
References
Correo'' (Spanish)
External links
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Mountains of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Mountains of the Pyrenees
Two-thousanders of France
Nouvelle-Aquitaine region articles needing translation from French Wikipedia