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February 11th, 2013
Sorbs 340303 34520
Hérault Languedoc-Roussillon
43.892 3.399 700 m

The Larzac under the snow, Sorbs

One view.
Another view.

In the Sorbs municipality, on the limestone plateau LARZAC, the snow, the wind, the cold.

_ The CAUSSE of LARZAC is vastest and southernmost of "GRANDS CAUSSES", large causses. Its 1000 km ² of plateau rise from 600 to 900 meters. It is limited to the North-East by Dourbie river which separates it from "Causse Noir", in the North-West the Tarn river separates it from the plateau of Lévézou, in the west it stops with the depression of Roquefort. Its surface is strewn with famous sites with the military orders, Knights of the Order of the Temple and Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem.

_ The GRANDS CAUSSES, in the south of the Massif Central, are delimited in north by the plateau of "Aubrac", in the east by the Cévennes, the south by the plain of the "lodévois", in the west by the plateau of "Lévézou". These are plateaus limestones whose altitude varies from 700 to 1250 meters of altitude, and of surface going up to 1000 km². The "Grands Causses" are formed by important "Causses of Larzac" (1000 km²), of "Sauveterre" (550 km²), "Méjean" (330 km²), and "Noir" (200 km²), but also of the causses "Comtal", "Rouge" and of "Sévérac", and many small peripheral causses like causses of "Mende", "Blandas", "Changefèges", "Bégon", etc… No waterway circulates on the surface of the plates, because the rainwater infiltrates in the karstic, generating networks of many swallow-holes and caves, to re-appear in the valleys. Geology of causses and the cévennes.

SORBS is a French commune, located in the department of Hérault of the Languedoc-Roussillon area, populated of 36 Sorbois in 2009, distributed on 20.2 km², is 1.8 hab./km².

The municipality of Sorbs consists of four hamlets.

Situated on the Causse du Larzac, the municipality of Sorbs is close to the Parc naturel régional des Grands Causses.

My images of Sorbs.
My images of the Causse du Larzac.

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