Pica d'Estats

Pica d' Estats in August 2005 ( from the southwest )

Pica d' Estats ( Spanish and Catalan Pica d' Estats, French Pique d' Estats or Pic d' Estats ) is a mountain in the Pyrenees, on the border between France and Spain and the highest mountain in Catalonia. Together with the neighboring Pic de Montcalm he is the easternmost three thousand of the Pyrenees.

The summit is located in the Catalan Pallars Sobirà and the French department Ariège. The summit consists of three very closely spaced peaks. The middle peak is 3143 meters high, the western Pic de Verdaguer 3131 m and the eastern Punta Gabarró is 3115 m high. The ridge runs in a north westerly direction along the Spanish-French border.

The first recorded ascent in 1864 succeeded Henry Russell and Jean -Jacques Denjean.

Literature and links

• Mountain in Europe
• Mountain in Catalonia
• Mountain in France
• Three thousand
• Mountain in the Pyrenees
• Geography (Midi- Pyrénées)
• Department the Ariège