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About
Created on 09/17/1984
3930 hectares
The 3930-hectare Py Nature Reserve is part of the central Pyrenean chain between the Canigou massif and the Costabona massif.
In terms of geology, two particularities stand out:
- carbonate and basic rocks in the lower zone, as well as marble and limestone.
- three roughly parallel bands of bulk quartz.
The natural site
Reserves and protected sites
Nature Reserves of Py and Mantet
950 to 2,700 m · National nature reserves (1984)
South of Canigó, two neighbouring nature reserves protect nearly 7,000 hectares of mountain, from 950 to 2,700 metres: forests, summer pastures, izard and bearded vultures, around Mantet, long nicknamed the "last village in France".
- Creation
- 17 September 1984 (both reserves)
- Py reserve
- about 3,930 ha, from 950 to 2,465 m
- Mantet reserve
- about 3,030 ha, from 1,400 to 2,700 m
- Species recorded
- about 5,600 at Py, 4,900 at Mantet
Coming up in Py
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Source : Pyrénées-Orientales Tourisme (DATAtourisme, Open Licence 2.0) · updated 16 Oct 2026