Le mont Perdu (monte Perdido en espagnol, punta de Treserols en aragonais, ce qui signifie « la pointe des Trois Sœurs » en français), situé en Espagne, proche de la frontière franco-espagnole, est le sommet le plus élevé du massif du Mont-Perdu avec 3 348 m d'altitude, sur la crête séparant les canyons d'Ordesa et de Pineta (ou Pinède).
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Soum de Ramond, also known as Pico de Añisclo in Spanish and Aragonese, is a mountain of 3,263 metres in the Monte Perdido massif in the Aragonese Pyrenees in northern Spain. It is one of the three mountains comprising Las Tres Sorores, the others being Monte Perdido and Cilindro de Marboré.
The mountain lies between the Ordesa Valley, the Añisclo Canyon and the Pineta Valley, inside the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. The Aragonese name "Pico Anyisclo" originates from the eponymous valley in the Aragonese Pyrenees. Later on, the mountain was named "Soum de Ramond" after Louis Ramond de Carbonnières, the French politician, geologist and botanist.
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Monte Perdido is the third highest mountain in the Pyrenees. The summit of Monte Perdido, located in Spain, lies hidden from France by the seemingly impenetrable peaks of the Cirques of Gavarnie and Estaubé. It stands in the north of Huesca province. The mountain forms part of the Monte Perdido Range and is located in the Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, in the western part of the Pyrenees, in the community of Aragon, Spain.
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Cilindro de Marboré is a mountain in the Monte Perdido massif in the Pyrenees.
It is one of the three mountains comprising Las Tres Sorores, the others being Monte Perdido and Soum de Ramond.
It is the northernmost point of Spain crossed by the IERS Reference Meridian.
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The Casque du Marboré, or Casque de Gavarnie or simply le Casque, is a Pyrenean summit, culminating at 3,006 m, located on the crest of three-thousanders in the Monte Perdido Range above Cirque de Gavarnie on the Franco-Spanish border.
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Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park is an IUCN Category II National Park situated in the Pyrenees. There has been a National Park in the Ordesa Valley since 1918. Its protected area was enlarged in 1982 to cover the whole region, amounting to 156.08 square kilometres.
It has been included since 1997 by UNESCO in the Biosphere Reserve of Ordesa-Viñamala. In the same year it was included in the cross-border Pyrénées - Mont Perdu World Heritage Site because of its spectacular geologic landforms.
C'est le pic central des Tres Serols (en aragonais) ou Tres Hermanas (en espagnol) constituées par le cylindre du Marboré, le soum de Ramond, et le mont Perdu lui-même.
Selon Ramond de Carbonnières : « Du Mont-Blanc même, il faut venir au Mont Perdu : quand on a vu la première des montagnes granitiques, il reste à voir la première des montagnes calcaires. »