Puig d'en Jordà, Mountain summit between Banyuls-sur-Mer, France and Rabós, Spain
Puig d'en Jordà is a mountain summit at the border between Banyuls-sur-Mer in France and Rabós in Spain, rising to 754 meters. Its slopes are composed of crystalline schist, slate, and phyllite exposed in natural rock layers throughout the terrain.
The border ridge the mountain sits on has been the France–Spain line since the 1659 Treaty of the Pyrenees, which divided Roussillon from Catalonia. The summit is not itself a boundary marker; the frontier crosses the 754 m peak, with Rabós on the Spanish side and Banyuls-sur-Mer on the French side.
The peak appears on the FEEC100 list, the 100 summits catalogue of the Federació d'Entitats Excursionistes de Catalunya. The name Jordà is a Catalan surname, so the mountain is "Puig d'en Jordà", the hill of the Jordà family. Its south-west flank lies in Rabós, its north-east side in Banyuls-sur-Mer.
A footpath passes just below the summit, coming up from La Torre Petita (746 m) and the Coll del Teixó (721 m), then following the border ridge northwest. The Catalan southwest side is largely treeless, while the French northeast side is densely wooded. The ridge continues northwest to the Col del Tourn (608 m) and the Puig de la Calme (718 m).
The summit lies on the border ridge that climbs from the Mediterranean at Puig Cervera (205 m) through Puig de Tarbaus (699 m) and Puig de Querroig (678 m); northwest of the peak the ridge continues to Col del Tourn (608 m) and Puig de la Calme (718 m). Just below the top, a footpath passes from La Torre Petita and the Coll del Teixó (721 m).
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