SABOT DE MALEPEYRE

Legend has it that Gargantua, passing through La Canourgue, forgot his shoe there. It is about 30 meters high.

Upstream from the village of La Canourgue, this valley owes its originality to the presence of a succession of dolomitic peaks, limestone cliffs, caves and natural arches. These escarpments emerging in the heart of wooded vegetation (Scots pines and white oaks) have a remarkable landscape interest.

The rock formations and cliffs are nesting sites

privileged for rock birds (peregrine falcon, eagle-owl, red-billed chough, black kite, red kite, Jean-le-Blanc wigeon). The Urugne valley is one of the main

wintering sites of the Great Rhinolophe.

Source: DREAL Languedoc-Roussillon, April 2007.