Millevaches en Limousin Regional Natural Park

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Natural environments Millevaches en Limousin Regional Natural Park

The territory of the Park is home to numerous remarkable environments. All have to a greater or lesser extent been created by human activity.

This region commonly referred to as the Limousin mountains receives considerable rainfall (1200 mm/year) with gentle relief and altitudes that do not reach 1000 m (highest point: Mont Bessou 984 m). The relief is organised into morphological systems called basin forms (relief with flowing shapes, made up of impermeable basins: basin forms, surrounded by rounded peaks).

A large number of watercourses are born in Millevaches Regional Natural Park: The Vienne, Creuse and Thaurion feed the Loire while the Vézère, Corrèze, Diège, Triouzoune and Chavanon flow into the Dordogne.

The remarkable environments are mainly peat habitats, dry moors with heather, broad-leaf forest populations and slope forests.

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