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Mount Baigura (), ''Baïgura'', ''Baygoura'' or ''Baighoura''
[, page 24] (el. 897 m./2943 ft.) is a mountain of the inner
French Basque Country. Transmitters are set up near its summit.
The leisure center ("base de loisir") at Baigura, on the road from
Hélette to
(in the commune of
Mendionde), organizes
paragliding
Paragliding is the recreational and competitive adventure sport of flying paragliders: lightweight, free-flying, foot-launched glider aircraft with no rigid primary structure. The pilot sits in a harness or in a cocoon-like 'pod' suspended be ...
activity on the northern slope of the mountain.
Name
The name ''Baigura'' is related to modern
Euskara
Basque ( ; ) is a language spoken by Basques and other residents of the Basque Country, a region that straddles the westernmost Pyrenees in adjacent parts of northern Spain and southwestern France. Basque is classified as a language isol ...
(Basque) ''ibar'' '
valley
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', ''ibai'' 'river' and ''guren'' 'limit' and means 'the end of valley'.
Geography
Mount Baigura is the highest point of a small isolated pre-
pyrenean massif
A massif () is a principal mountain mass, such as a compact portion of a mountain range, containing one or more summits (e.g. France's Massif Central). In mountaineering literature, ''massif'' is frequently used to denote the main mass of an ...
inside the French Basque Country in the southwest of
Aquitaine
Aquitaine (, ; ; ; ; Poitevin-Saintongeais: ''Aguiéne''), archaic Guyenne or Guienne (), is a historical region of southwestern France and a former Regions of France, administrative region. Since 1 January 2016 it has been part of the administ ...
, between the former provinces of
Labourd
Labourd (; ; ; ) is a former French province and part of the present-day Pyrénées Atlantiques '' département'' of Nouvelle-Aquitaine region. It is one of the traditional Basque provinces, and identified as one of the territorial component pa ...
and
Lower Navarre
Lower Navarre (; Gascon/Bearnese: ''Navarra Baisha''; ; ) is a traditional region of the present-day French '' département'' of Pyrénées-Atlantiques. It corresponds to the northernmost ''region'' of the Kingdom of Navarre during the Middle A ...
.
The Haltzamendi (818 m) extends the massif toward the south.
Climbing routes
The summit can be reached from ''Heraitze'' in Helette, passing by the St. Vincent chapel (''Bixintxoko kapera''), or from the leisure center.
The ''Haltzamendi'' can be reached from
.
References
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Mountains of the Pyrenees
Mountains of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Mountains_under_1000_metres
Mountains of the Basque Country
Geography of the Northern Basque Country