Gran Encant de Lleida

Los Encantada are two peaks located in the Pyrenees, south of Lake San Mauricio, to the right of the Escrita river, in the orographic sense. It is part of the head of the Noguera Pallaresa.

The western tip, the Little Enchanted one has an altitude of 2738 meters and the Great Enchanted one an altitude of 2747 meters. They are separated by a great gap or gorge of 2624 meters.

The Enchanted are part of a set of metamorphic rocks, which come from the transformation of sedimentary rocks due to the conditions of temperature and pressure to which they were subjected. These rocks have given rise to these emblematic peaks, formed by metamorphic limestone.

Petrographically, the Escrita valley is formed by the same normal granite of the Pyrenean axial axis; but these two peaks are made of folded slate and calcareous rock, of a not very good quality but which, nevertheless, has given rise to these spectacular spiers.

The name comes, like that of many other mountains, from an ancient legend. It seems that two hunters, one Sunday morning, wanting to be the first to hunt down the chamois, did not attend Sunday mass, for which they were cursed, remaining petrified forever, turned into those two vertical peaks.

Article obtained from Wikipedia article Wikipedia in his version of 19/10/2020, by various authors under the license Licencia de Documentación Libre GNU.

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