🌿 Pitons Management Area

Saint Lucia · Americas · Natural · 13.80°N, 61.10°W

The Pitons are two mountainous volcanic plugs, volcanic spires, located in Saint Lucia. Petit Piton is 743 m (2,438 ft) high and Gros Piton is 798.25 m (2,618.9 ft) high; they are linked by the Piton Mitan ridge. Piton means mountain peak in French, so Petit and Gros Piton respectively refer to the smaller and larger peak. The Pitons are a World Heritage Site, 2,909 ha in size, and located near the town of Soufrière.

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Quick facts

Country	Saint Lucia
Continent / region	Americas
List type	🌿 Natural heritage site
Coordinates (approx.)	13.80°N, 61.10°W · view on map

Pitons Management Area is a natural World Heritage site in Saint Lucia, in Americas. For the living forecast of the area, open World Weather; the details of why Pitons Management Area was inscribed are described by the sourced introduction above (from Wikipedia).

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