Pointe du Camping
Pointe du Camping is a bay in Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, Arrondissement of Perpignan, Occitanie.Places of Interest
Highlights include Lac de Villeneuve-de-la-Raho and Réart.
Lac de Villeneuve-de-la-Raho
Lake
Photo: Sylenius, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lac de Villeneuve-de-la-Raho is a lake in the town of Villeneuve-de-la-Raho in Pyrénées-Orientales, France. The lake lies in a deflation pan. That is a natural, circular, shallow depression caused by the removal of fairly loose, mainly Pliocene, sediment by wind erosion, during very cold, windy phases of the Quaternary period.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elne and Perpignan.
Elne
Photo: Culex, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Elne is situated in the Pyrénées-Orientales region of south-western France, 12 km from Perpignan and 7 km from Argelès. It had a population of 6,473 in 1999 and is best known for its Roman architectural remains.
Perpignan
Photo: Christophe Marcheux, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Perpignan is the capital of the department of Pyrénées-Orientales, the Northern Catalonia part of France, and about 15 km from the sea. Perpignan is home to about 120,000 people, and has two rivers flowing through it; with the Têt to the north, and the Basse through the centre.
Cabestany
Town
Photo: LySioS-wkp, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cabestany is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Pointe du Camping
- Type: Bay
- Category: body of water
- Location: Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, Arrondissement of Perpignan, Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitanie, France, Europe
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Latitude
42.6351° or 42° 38′ 6″ northLongitude
2.8992° or 2° 53′ 57″ eastOpen location code
8FJ4JVPX+2MOpenStreetMap ID
node 8584135990OpenStreetMap feature
natural=bay
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