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Pyrenees

Range Type	Mountain range with well-recognized name
Highest Point	Pico de Aneto (3404 m/11,168 ft)
Countries	Spain (51%), France (48%) (numbers are approximate percentage of range area)
States/Provinces	Catalonia (26%), Nouvelle-Aquitaine (22%), Aragón (19%), Occitanie (18%), Chile-UK-Argentina Overlapping Claims (8%), Navarra (6%) (numbers are approximate percentage of range area)
Area	116,399 sq km / 44,942 sq mi Area may include lowland areas
Extent	546 km / 339 mi North-South 447 km / 278 mi East-West
Center Lat/Long	43° 9' N; 0° 34' E
Map Link	Microsoft Bing Map
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Map of Pyrenees
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Iberian Peninsula	Level 2 (Parent)
Portugal-Galicia	Level 3 (Sibling)
Cordillera Cantabrica	Level 3 (Sibling)
Pyrenees	Level 3
Western Pyrenees	Level 4 (Child)
West-Central Pyrenees	Level 4 (Child)
South-Central Pyrennees Foothills	Level 4 (Child)
East-Central Pyrenees	Level 4 (Child)
Eastern Pyrenees	Level 4 (Child)
Castile Ranges	Level 3 (Sibling)
Sistema Iberico	Level 3 (Sibling)
Balearic Islands	Level 3 (Sibling)
Andalucian Ranges	Level 3 (Sibling)

Major Peaks of the Pyrenees

Ten Highest Peaks
Rank	Peak Name	m	ft	Range4
1.	Pico de Aneto	3404	11,168	West-Central Pyrenees
2.	Posets	3369	11,053	West-Central Pyrenees
3.	Pico Maldito	3354	11,004	West-Central Pyrenees
4.	Punta de Astorg	3354	11,004	West-Central Pyrenees
5.	Pico del Medio	3349	10,988	West-Central Pyrenees
6.	Monte Perdido	3348	10,984	West-Central Pyrenees
7.	Pico de Espadas	3328	10,919	West-Central Pyrenees
8.	Cilindro de Marbore	3325	10,909	West-Central Pyrenees
9.	Pico de la Maladeta	3312	10,866	West-Central Pyrenees
10.	Pic Vignemale	3299	10,823	West-Central Pyrenees
Sub-peaks are excluded from this list. List may not be complete, since only summits in the PBC Database are included.

Child Range High Points
Rank	Peak Name	m	ft	Range4
1.	Pico de Aneto	3404	11,168	West-Central Pyrenees
2.	Pic d'Estats	3144	10,315	East-Central Pyrenees
3.	Puigmal	2910	9547	Eastern Pyrenees
4.	Pic du Midi d’Ossau	2884	9462	Western Pyrenees
5.	Puntón de Guara	2077	6814	South-Central Pyrennees Foothills

Photos of Peaks in the Pyrenees

Pico de Aneto The summit block of the Pico de Aneto is a shark's tooth rising above a small glacier (1985-07-25).	Posets View from Posets summit westward: In the center Monte Perdido, Cilindro de Marbore, and Pico Marbore (Las tres sorores), to the right Vignemale (2016-08-24). Photo by Timo Fleig. Click here for larger-size photo.
Monte Perdido Monte Perdido lords over the head of the flat-bottomed Ordessa Valley in the Pyrennes (1985-07-15).	Cilindro de Marbore The "cylinder" of Marbore indeed looks like a tree stump in this view from Monte Perdido (1985-07-15).
Pic Vignemale North Face of Pic Vignemale (2017-08-22). Photo by Robert Garneau. Click here for larger-size photo.	El Tallón Summit of Le Taillon (to the right); left back: doigt de dieu (finger of God); foreground: Taillon glacier (2017-08-22). Photo by Timo Fleig. Click here for larger-size photo.
Pic de Néouvielle Pic de Néouvielle as seen from Lac d'Aubert (2148 m). The summit is in the center background (2018-09-22). Photo by Timo Fleig. Click here for larger-size photo.	Tuca de Mulieres Summit of Tuca de Mulieres (the ridge in the center) as seen at 7 a.m. from the (small) refuge at approx. 2300m (2015-08-20). Photo by Timo Fleig. Click here for larger-size photo.
Pic de Coma Pedrosa Coma Pedrosa is a big pile of rocks crowned by a squat cairn (1993-08-29).	Pica Roja Pic de la Rouge (or Pica Roja) as seen from about 2300m altitude facing SW. The col on the right-hand side is the Port de Roumazet (2571m) from where the ascent of the summit ridge begins (2016-09-04). Photo by Timo Fleig. Click here for larger-size photo.

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