Causses du Quercy Regional Natural Park

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Natural environments Causses du Quercy Regional Natural Park

Causses du Quercy Regional Natural Park is home to a huge variety of natural habitats: cliffs, fallen rocks, sinkholes (also known locally as "cloups"), chasms, dry meadows and calcicole moors (those that develop on calcareous soil), natural prairies, humid prairies and marshes, pools ("lac de St-Namphaise") and rivers, oak forests, afforestation of gulleys or hillsides, etc. Twenty types of habitats of European interest have been identified.

The remarkable natural environments in the territory of the Regional Natural Park are, for the most part, closely related to human activities, mainly farming, which has promoted the keeping of open spaces. This is particularly the case with the calcicole dry meadows, a symbolic environment of the Causses du Quercy.

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