Pyrenees Mountains:
The French President recently hosted Chinese President Xi Jinping at the Tourmalet Pass in the Pyrenees for private meetings
- Pyrenees Mountains are a chain of mountains in southwestern Europe that form a natural border between Spain and France.
- It is a fold mountain chain created by the continental collision of the microcontinent of Iberia with the massive Eurasian plate.
- They are quite old mountains in comparison to the Alps.
- It extends for about 500 km from the coasts of the Mediterranean Sea in the east to the Bay of Biscay (Atlantic Ocean) in the west.
- Politically, it is divided into the Spanish and French Pyrenees.
- The tiny country of Andorra is found sandwiched between them, in the eastern part of the Pyrenees Mountains.
- It separates the rest of continental Europe from the Iberian Peninsula.
- The western end of the Pyrenees Mountains merges with the Cantabrian Mountains, located in the northern part of the Iberian Peninsula.
- Located in Spain, Aneto Peak, is the highest mountain peak in the Pyrenees Mountains (3,404 m).
