The Montagne Noire ( oc, Montanha Negra, known as the 'Black Mountain' in English) is a mountain range in central southern
France
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. It is located at the southwestern end of the
Massif Central
The (; oc, Massís Central, ; literally ''"Central Massif"'') is a highland region in south-central France, consisting of mountains and plateaus. It covers about 15% of mainland France.
Subject to volcanism that has subsided in the last 10,0 ...
at the juncture of the
Tarn,
Hérault
Hérault (; oc, Erau, ) is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France. Named after the Hérault River, its prefecture is Montpellier. It had a population of 1,175,623 in 2019.[Aude
Aude (; ) is a department in Southern France, located in the Occitanie region and named after the river Aude. The departmental council also calls it " Cathar Country" (French: ''Pays cathare'') after a group of religious dissidents active ...]
departments. Its highest point is the
Pic de Nore at .
The mountain is within the
Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park
A mouflon in the park.
Haut-Languedoc Regional Nature Park (french: Parc naturel régional du Haut-Languedoc) is a regional natural park in the south of the Massif Central within the Aveyron, Hérault, and Tarn departments of France. These ...
.
The
GSSP for the
Tournaisian is near the summit of La Serre hill, in the
commune of
Cabrières, in the Montagne Noire .
[The GSSP was published by Paproth ''et al.'' (1991)] The GSSP is in a section on the southern side of the hill, in an 80 cm deep trench, about 125 m south of the summit, 2.5 km southwest of the village of Cabrières and 2.5 km north of the hamlet of
Fontès
Fontès (; Languedocien: ''Fontés'') is a commune in the Hérault department in southern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Hérault department
The following is a list of the 342 communes of the Hérault department of France.
T ...
.
References
Landforms of Aude
Landforms of Hérault
Landforms of Tarn (department)
Noire
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