Piton Carré, Mountain summit in Hautes-Pyrénées, France

Piton Carré is a 3,197 m summit in the Vignemale massif of the French Pyrenees, the seventh highest peak of that massif and the second highest entirely French Pyrenean summit after Pointe Chausenque. It lies between Pointe Chausenque and Pique Longue, within the Pyrenees National Park near Cauterets and Gavarnie-Gèdre. The photograph shows a dark, jagged rock summit with a vertical shadowed face on its left flank and a band of white snow clinging diagonally to its right slope above a broad snowfield.

The sources record no ascent date or first climber for Piton Carré. Its documented history is one of measurement and naming: at 3,197 m it is listed as the seventh-highest summit of the Vignemale massif and, after Pointe Chausenque, the second-highest Pyrenean summit lying entirely in France. The neighbouring Pointe Chausenque carries the name of Vincent de Chausenque, the Pyrenean pioneer.

The name comes from the peak's square-cut profile, "piton" meaning peak in French. It is the second-highest Pyrenean summit lying entirely within France, after Pointe Chausenque, a fact that shapes how French climbers regard it. It counts among the Pyrenean three-thousanders.

Two approach routes are documented: from the vallée de Gaube beyond Cauterets, or from the vallée d'Ossoue. The summit lies between Pointe Chausenque and Pique Longue, inside the Pyrenees National Park. No marked or equipped route is described in the sources, so parties plan their own line on the rock and snow shown in photographs of the peak.

Piton Carré is the second-highest Pyrenean summit lying entirely within France, after Pointe Chausenque, which rises beside it. Its 3,197 m top makes it the seventh-highest point of the Vignemale massif and one of the Pyrenean 3,000-metre peaks.