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Hautes-Pyrénées

Hautes-Pyrénées is a department in south-western France on the Spanish border, in the Occitanie region, with Tarbes as its prefecture. It covers the central Pyrenees and the upper Adour valley, and roughly corresponds to the old County of Bigorre. It includes the pilgrimage town of Lourdes and the Pic du Midi observatory.

Hautes-Pyrénées
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The Epoch Institute. (2026). Hautes-Pyrénées. In The Epoch Institute Encyclopedia. https://the-epoch-institute.org/encyclopedia/hautes-pyrenees
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