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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A village of southwest France in the Pyrenees south of Lourdes. Nearby is the Cirque de Gavarnie, a vast natural amphitheater which is the site of the highest waterfall in France, about 422 m (1385 feet) high.
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The four glacial cirques: Gavarnie, Estaubé, Troumouse and Baroude are located to the north; to the south there are three canyons and a gorge: Ordesa, Añisclo, Pineta and Escuaín.
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Comparaison des bassins crétacés d'Eaux Chaudes, de Gèdre et de Gavarnie.
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Geology of the Spanish part of the Gavarnie nappe (Pyrenees).
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The site covers an area of 31,189 hectares (ha), of which 20,134 ha are in Spain: the entire "Ordesa y Monte Perdido" National Park (15,608 ha), and a buffer zone of 4,526 ha; and 11,055 ha in France: the eastern part of Pyrénées Occidentales National Park (7,451 ha) and part of Gavarnie "Site Classé" (3,559 ha).
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La nappe de recouvrement des environs de Gavarnie et de Gèdre.
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La nappe du Mont Perdu et ses relations avec la nappe de Gavarnie.
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Two places are most visited, Torla in Spain, and Gavarnie village in France.
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Structure du masif du Mont Perdu; ses relaions avec la nappe de recouvrement de Gavarnie (Pyrénées) C.R. Acad.
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Other noteworthy fauna include cave-dwelling species such as a collembolan Tricanthella frigida, an endemic found in Gavarnie cirque at 2,500 m, and coleopteran Tipnus unicolor and Speonomus bolivari.
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Enchanted with such a fairyland, we lingered so long over our passage that we only reached Gavarnie with a handful of moments to spare.
Jonah and Co. Dornford Yates 1922
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