Pyrenees
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Summary
Pyrenees is a mountain range[1]. Pyrenees ranks in the top 0.46% of mountain range entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (14,504 views/month, #13 of 2,807).[2]
Key Facts
- Located in the administrative territorial entity: Nouvelle-Aquitaine[3], Occitania[4], Basque Country[5], Aragon[6], Navarre[7], Catalonia[8]
- Country: Spain[9], France[10], Andorra[11]
- Shares border with: valley of Ebro[12], Aquitaine Basin[13]
- Named after: Pyrene[14]
- Made from material: metamorphic rock[15]
- Location: South-West Europe[16]
- Part of: Alpide belt[17]
- Commons category: Pyrenees[18]
- Has part(s): Pre-Pyrenees[19]
- Highest point: Aneto[20]
- Topic's main category: Category:Pyrenees[21]
- Commons gallery: Pyrenees[22]
- Topic's main Wikimedia portal: Portal:Pyrenees[23]
- Described by source: Otto's encyclopedia[24], Russian translation of Lübker's Antiquity Lexicon[25], The Nuttall Encyclopædia[26], Zedler, Großes vollständiges Universallexicon aller Wissenschaften und Künste[27]
- Length: 491 km[28]
- Elevation above sea level: 3404 m[29]
- Area: 19,000 km²[30]
- Time period: Eocene[31], Paleozoic[32], Mesozoic[33]
- Geography of topic: Géographie des Pyrénées[34]
- Connects with: Iberian Peninsula[35]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4[36]
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Cultural Significance
Things named for Pyrenees include Pyrenean desman[37], a taxon[38]; Pyrénées-Atlantiques[39], a department of France[40], in France[41], founded in 1790[42]; Pyrénées-Orientales[43], a department of France[44], in France[45], founded in 1790[46]; Hautes-Pyrénées[47], a department of France[48], in France[49], founded in 1790[50]; Treaty of the Pyrenees[51], a peace treaty[52], in France[53], founded in 1659[54]; Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport[55], an airport[56], in France[57]; Midi-Pyrénées[58], a region of France[59], in France[60], founded in 1960[61]; and La Seu d'Urgell Airport[62], an airport[63], in Spain[64], founded in 1982[65].
Why It Matters
Pyrenees has Wikipedia articles in 30 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[66] Pyrenees is known by 45 alternative names across languages and contexts.[67]
Entities named for Pyrenees include Pyrenean desman[37], a taxon[38]; Pyrénées-Atlantiques[39], a department of France[40], in France[41], founded in 1790[42]; Pyrénées-Orientales[43], a department of France[44], in France[45], founded in 1790[46]; Hautes-Pyrénées[47], a department of France[48], in France[49], founded in 1790[50]; Treaty of the Pyrenees[51], a peace treaty[52], in France[53], founded in 1659[54]; and Tarbes-Lourdes-Pyrénées Airport[55], an airport[56], in France[57].