Bigorre is a region in southwest France, historically an independent county and later a French province, located in the upper watershed of the Adour, on the northern slopes of the Pyrenees, part of the larger region known as Gascony. Today Bigorre comprises the centre and west of the département of Hautes-Pyrénées, with two small exclaves in the neighbouring Pyrénées Atlantiques. Its inhabitants are called Bigourdans.
"A Paysan of Bigorre", James Duffield Harding, c. 1831.
The famous Cirque de Gavarnie, in the very south of Bigorre, with the 442 meters (1,450 ft) Gavarnie waterfall visible in the background
Hautes-Pyrénées is a department in the region of Occitania, southwestern France. The department is bordered by Pyrénées-Atlantiques to the west, Gers to the north, Haute-Garonne to the east, as well by the Spanish province of Huesca in the autonomous community of Aragon to the south. In 2019, its population was 229,567; its prefecture is Tarbes. It is named after the Pyrenees mountain range.
Prefecture building in Tarbes
Lourdes sanctuary
Pic du Midi de Bigorre
Vignemale