The Causses are a group of limestone plateaux in the Massif Central. They are bordered to the north-west by the Limousin and the Périgord uplands, and to the east by the Aubrac and the Cévennes. Large rivers gorges cut through the plateaux, such as the Tarn, Dourbie, Jonte, Lot the Vis and Aveyron. Causse is an Occitan word meaning "limestone plat…
The Causses are a group of limestone plateaux in the Massif Central. They are bordered to the north-west by the Limousin and the Périgord uplands, and to the east by the Aubrac and the Cévennes. Large rivers gorges cut through the plateaux, such as the Tarn, Dourbie, Jonte, Lot the Vis and Aveyron. Causse is an Occitan word meaning "limestone plateau" coming from the latin word calx meaning limestone or chalk.
Location: Massif Central, France
Part of: The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape
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