The Aragonese Pyrenees is the purest manifestation of the Ice Age that gave rise to this range, is an area of large glaciers, beautiful forests and green meadows, lakes, countless rivers and streams of high peaks and huge masses of granite. The Aragonese Pyrenees has always been regarded, by its rugged terrain, as the mecca of Spanish mountain. Huesca province has 15,615 square kilometers, of which over 30% are above 1000 meters high and with 188 peaks over 3000 meters (270 in the whole mountain range). In Huesca there are about 200 mountain lakes and about 25 glaciers. It also has 30 caves (25% from the deepest of Spain), and the two integrals in the world. (más…)

The Pyrenees, or the Pyrenees and its inhabitants prefer to call referring to a part or region thereof (Catalan: Pirineus; French: Pyrénées; Gascon: Pirenèus; Aragonese: Perinés; Euskara: Pirinioak or Auñamendiak) are a mountain range located at north of the Iberian Peninsula between Spain and France.

It stretches over 415 km from the Mediterranean Sea (Cape Creus) in the east to the Cantabrian Sea (Cape Higuer) west.

At its core has a width of about 150 km.

In everyday language the word applies to the whole Pyrenean high mountains of Hispanic-French border. (más…)