Massif de la Clape
mountains in France
The Massif de la Clape or Montagne de la Clape, is a small limestone mountain range on the French Mediterranean coast. It covers 15,000 hectares (37,000 acres) and is located in the department of Aude in Occitanie. It lies between the city of Narbonne and the sea. Besides Narbonne, the towns of Armissan, Vinassan, and Fleury are located along its edges, as well as Saint-Pierre-la-Mer, Narbonne-Plage, and Gruissan on the coast. The name derives from the Occitan word "clapas", which means "rocky scree slope" or "pile of pebbles."
The massif is about 17 kilometres (11 mi) long from southwest to northeast and about 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) wide from northwest to southeast. It provides the highest elevations on the mostly flat coast between the Rhône estuary (Camargue) and the Pyrenees. Several peaks reach over 200 metres (660 ft) and are thus higher than the hill overlooking Sète, Mont Saint-Clair at 175 metres (574 ft), and the hill overlooking Agde at 111 metres (364 ft). The highest point of the Massif de la Clape is Pech Redon at 214 metres (702 ft). Due to its height, a radar station of the French military has been located on the Plan de Roques at an altitude of 200 m since 1965, from where it monitors the country and part of the western Mediterranean. The massif lies within the Parc naturel régional de la Narbonnaise en Méditerranée.
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