Puig d'en Jordà
| Puig d'en Jordà | ||
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| height | 754 m | |
| location | Pyrénées-Orientales , France / Province of Girona , Catalonia | |
| Mountains | Pyrenees | |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 25 '30 " N , 3 ° 4' 55" E | |
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| rock | slate | |
| Age of the rock | Cambrian / Ordovician | |
The Puig d'en Jordà is a 754.2 meter high mountain over which the French-Spanish border runs between the province of Girona and Roussillon ( Département Pyrénées-Orientales ).
location
The southwest slope of Puig d'en Jordà belongs to the municipality of the north of Catalonia located Rabós ( Alt Empordà ). Its northeast side forms the southern section of the French municipality of Banyuls-sur-Mer .
After the Puig de Querroig (678 meters) and the Puig de Tarbaus (699 meters), the Puig d'en Jordà is the next higher elevation on the border ridge rising from the Mediterranean ( Côte Vermeille ), which begins at the Puig Cervera (205 meters). At the same border ridge then follows the Col del Tourn (608 meters) northwest and then the Puig de la Calme at 718 meters above sea level .
At the Puig d'en Jordà the ridge branches and sends an offshoot south towards Puig d'Esquers (603 meters) and the 587 meter high Roques Blanques (on the ridge of the els Esquers ). At La Torre Petita (746 meters), immediately to the southeast , at which the border ridge bends in the north-west direction, another ridge branches off and leads to the Sierra de Balmeta, which strikes south-south-east . Immediately at the summit of the Puig d'en Jordà there is a footpath that comes up from La Torre Petita and the Coll del Teixó (721 meters) and then follows the border ridge to the northwest.
Several streams arise below the summit structure, such as the Rec de la Perdiu , which drains to the southwest and in the immediate vicinity of which the Abbey of Sant Quirze de Colera and the Church of Santa Maria de Colera were built. Or the Torrent Jordana, which flows south, and the Córrec Taravaus, which drains northeast towards Banyuls-sur-Mer .
The Catalan south-west side of the Puig d'en Jordà is relatively treeless, while the French north-east side is densely forested.
geology
The geological subsoil of the Puig d'en Jordà is made up of Paleozoic slates from the Albères massif . The opposite end of the Variscan orogeny in the Upper Carboniferous about 300 million years BP only relatively weakly metamorphosed rocks are older than 470 million years BP and belong to the greenschist facies (Chloritzone) to.
literature
- Becat, Joan: 12-Banyuls de la Marenda . In: Atles toponímic de Catalunya Nord. I. Aiguatèbia - Montner . Terra Nostra (Biblioteca de Catalunya Nord, XVIII), 2015, ISSN 1243-2032 .
- Becat, Joan, Ponsich, Pere and Gual, Raimon: Banyuls de la Marenda, Cotlliure i Portvendres . In: El Rosselló i la Fenolleda . Fundació Enciclopèdia Catalana (Gran Geografia Comarcal de Catalunya, 14), Barcelona 1985, ISBN 84-85194-59-4 .