Gavarnie Falls
The Gavarnie Falls ( French Grande Cascade ) are located in the Cirque de Gavarnie , in the French part of the Pyrenees . They are located in the Pyrenees National Park (fr: Parc national des Pyrénées ).
The Grande Cascade falls with a total height of 422 meters in two to three steps into the valley floor and is the highest waterfall in France. The largest single fall section has a height of 281 meters.
Their inflow is fed by a karst lake of Monte Perdido on the Spanish side. The Grande Cascade provides the first major tributary of the Gave de Pau , a source river of the Adour .
literature
- Patricia Corrigan: Waterfalls . Infobase Publishing, 2007, ISBN 978-0-8160-6436-6 , pp. 44–54 ( excerpt from Google book search)
Web links
Commons : Cirque de Gavarnie - collection of images, videos and audio files
- Grande Cascade de Gavarnie on Wondermondo
- Gavarnie, Grande Cascade de , entry in the World Waterfall Database
- Youtube video (1:58 min.)
Coordinates: 42 ° 41 ′ 37 ″ N , 0 ° 0 ′ 17 ″ W.