Puy Chavaroche is a
French summit located in the
Mounts of Cantal
The Mounts of Cantal (or Volcanoes of Cantal; ) are a mountainous massif in the mid-west of the Massif Central, France, made up of the remnants of the largest stratovolcano of Europe, which was formed from 13 million years ago and last erupted a ...
. It peaks at 1,736 meters above sea level. There is an impressive "stone man" where visitors can leave a stone to mark their passage. Puy Chavaroche is crossed by the Grande Randonnée 400 (
GR 400) hiking trail.
Toponymy
It is nicknamed the "goat mountain" due to the proximity of ''chava'' and ''chabra'' ("goat").
Geology
Like several other peaks in the Cantal massif, Puy Chavaroche is composed of alternating layers of
trachyandesite
Trachyandesite is an extrusive igneous rock with a composition between trachyte and andesite. It has little or no free quartz, but is dominated by sodic plagioclase and alkali feldspar. It is formed from the cooling of lava enriched in alkal ...
and volcanic
breccia
Breccia ( , ; ) is a rock composed of large angular broken fragments of minerals or Rock (geology), rocks cementation (geology), cemented together by a fine-grained matrix (geology), matrix.
The word has its origins in the Italian language ...
s.
Access
Puy Chavaroche can be reached on foot from the village of
Mandailles, from the Col de Légal, or from the
Pas de Peyrol. To the southwest lies the Roche Parlante.
References
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Mountains of the Massif Central
Mountains of Cantal
Volcanoes of Metropolitan France