Causses
Sign in to saveThe Causses () are a group of limestone plateaux (700–1,200 m) in the Massif Central. They are bordered to the north-west by the Limousin and the Périgord uplands, and to the east by the Aubrac and the Cévennes. Large river gorges cut through the plateaux, such as the Tarn, Dourbie, Jonte, Lot, Vis, and Aveyron. Causse is an Occitan word meaning "limestone plateau" coming from the latin word calx meaning limestone or chalk.
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- Causse Mejean, Cevennes National Park, France.jpg
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- Causse Méjean in Massif Central, Cévennes National Park, France
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- Massif Central, France
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- The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape
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- (iii)(v)
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- 1153rev
- UNESCO World Heritage Site.year
- 2011
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- France
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The Causses () are a group of limestone plateaux (700–1,200 m) in the Massif Central. They are bordered to the north-west by the Limousin and the Périgord uplands, and to the east by the Aubrac and the Cévennes. Large river gorges cut through the plateaux, such as the Tarn, Dourbie, Jonte, Lot, Vis, and Aveyron. Causse is an Occitan word meaning "limestone plateau" coming from the latin word calx meaning limestone or chalk.
The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2011, because of the region's extensive and continuous use of Mediterranean pastoral systems and their testimony to the traditional methods of transhumance.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Causses” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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