Larrun
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Larrun (, ; ; ; - 'good pasture', possibly a folk etymology, in French until the 20th century: Larhune) is a mountain (905 m) at the western end of the Pyrenees. It is located on the border of France and Spain, where the traditional Basque provinces of Labourd and Navarra meet. Its prominence is 670 m.
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Vinony's link graph records 27 inbound references to Larrun, and connects out to Navarre, France and Spain.
The entry is geolocated on the map in mountain_region, across 2 mapped points.
It sits within the topics Labourd, Mountains of Navarre and Mountains of Pyrénées-Atlantiques.
Vinony links it to 20 Wikipedia language editions.
Key facts
- Mountain.name
- Larrun
- Mountain.other_name
- La Rhune
- Mountain.photo
- Larrun -BT- 01.jpg
- Mountain.elevation_m
- 905
- Mountain.prominence_m
- 670
- Mountain.range
- Pyrenees
- Mountain.location
- Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France Navarre, Spain
- Mountain.map
- Pyrenees
- Mountain.label_position
- right
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Encyclopedic overview
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Larrun (, ; ; ; - 'good pasture', possibly a folk etymology, in French until the 20th century: Larhune) is a mountain (905 m) at the western end of the Pyrenees. It is located on the border of France and Spain, where the traditional Basque provinces of Labourd and Navarra meet. Its prominence is 670 m.
==History== thumb|Le petit train de la Rhune Larrun holds an iconic place in Basque culture. It is covered in dolmens, stone circles and other neolithic monuments and was held to be a sacred place in Basque mythology. It was said to be the home of Lehensugea, the first serpent. Later, and perhaps as a consequence of the ancient sacred sites, the summit had a reputation as an akelarre or ritual meeting place for witches. Up until the 18th century, local villages paid for a monk to live as a hermit at the top of the mountain to keep witches away and ensure good winds.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Larrun” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
2 mapped locations