The Pyrenees are a mountain range in southwestern Europe. They extend in length in an east-west direction over an approximate distance of 430 kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea Cap de Creus to the Bay of Biscay Cap Higuer. A geographical barrier resulting from the collision of the Iberian and Eurasian plates, the Pyrenees culminate at 3,404 meters above sea level at the peak of Aneto and separate the Iberian Peninsula to the south from the rest of continental Europe to the north. They mark the border between Spain and France and are also home to the Principality of Andorra.
The Pyrenees chain crosses two regions and six French departments: from east to west, the Occitanie Pyrénées-Orientales, Aude, Ariège, Haute-Garonne and Hautes-Pyrénées and Nouvelle-Aquitaine Pyrénées-Atlantiques regions. On the Spanish side, it crosses four autonomous communities and seven provinces of Spain: from east to west Catalonia Girona, Barcelona and Lleida, Aragon Huesca and Zaragoza, Navarre community made up of a single province of same name and the Basque Autonomous Community Guipuscoa.
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