Col du Perthus
The Col du Perthus or Col du Pertus is a mountain pass ascending to an altitude of 1,309 metres in the Mounts of Cantal and in the department of the same name, in the Massif Central.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: SchiDD, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include L’Élancèze and Cascade de Liadouze.
Église Saint-Laurent de Mandailles
Church
Photo: Pline, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Église Saint-Laurent de Mandailles is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Jacques-des-Blats and Thiézac.
Saint-Jacques-des-Blats
Village
Photo: Sylenius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint-Jacques-des-Blats is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France.
Thiézac
Village
Photo: Dominique Robert REPERANT, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Thiézac is a commune in the Cantal department in south-central France.
Col du Perthus
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 1,309 metres
- Description: mountain pass in Cantal, France
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Mandailles-Saint-Julien, Arrondissement of Aurillac, Cantal, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude
45.0581° or 45° 3′ 29″ northLongitude
2.6736° or 2° 40′ 25″ eastElevation
1,309 metres (4,295 feet)Open location code
8FQ43M5F+6FOpenStreetMap ID
node 393758OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddleWikidata ID
Q2982299
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to German—“Col du Perthus” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “coll del Perthus”
- Catalan: “Coll del Perthus”
- Dutch: “Col du Perthus (Centraal Massief)”
- Dutch: “Col du Perthus”
- French: “col de Perthus”
- French: “col de Pertus”
- French: “col du Perthus”
- French: “Col du Perthus”
- French: “col du Pertus”
- German: “Col du Perthus”
- German: “Col du Pertus”
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