Altitude : 1370 m. Surface : 8254 ha. 38 km S. Argelès-Gazost. Canton : Luz-Saint-Sauveur. District : Argelès-Gazost. Inhabitants number : 164 (1999). Inhabitants name : Gavarniens.
Valley picture Gavarnie-Gèdre at the Pic du Bergons
Animated panoramic picture from the Pic des Tentes:
This valley is classified with the world inheritance UNESCO. Transborder site, leaned with the Spanish canyons of Anisclo, Pineta and of mythical Ordesa, the territory of Gavarnie Gèdre belongs to the site "the Pyrenees Mont-Perdu, country of circuses and canyons", recognized like world inheritance by UNESCO, as a natural landscape and a cultural landscape. This reconnaisance devotes alliance between the man and the natural beauty, its adaptation to the natural constraints, of altitude and the relief, but also the transborder exchanges ever stopped between the communities of the Spanish and French slopes.
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From June 26th to 28th, the stadium of Pau-Pyrénées will host the first stage of the 2009 I.C.F. Canoe Slalom World Cup. This international competition, which is the first to be organized since the Olympic Games in Beijing, should gather more than 30 delegations of athletes from all over the world.
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