Borée beech
The oldest mountain beech in France in all its splendour, more than 400 years old...
The Rocks of Borée
These are typical examples of viscous lava needles that have moved into place almost in a solid state. Here no craters but massive shapes in the landscape. Interpretation table between the two rocks.
The Maar of Borée-Echamps
This maar is a superb example of phreatomagmatic volcanic activity. The operation is characterized by an intense explosive activity caused by the meeting of the hot magma during the ascent with the waters infiltrated from the surface.
Le Gouleiou
The volcanic juice of Gouléïou takes its name from the particular site it occupies. “Gouléïou” actually comes from “goulet”, that is to say “col”. It is a relief formed of phonolite, a clear volcanic rock enriched in silica.
Volcanic juices: Pelean volcanoes
A Pelean volcano is of the extrusive type, that is to say that it involves a viscous magma, not very rich in gas, building domes. Depending on the viscosity of the lava, the domes can be built according to several shapes.
Juice of Touron
The sap of Touron near Borée, is a volcano characterized by a blue phonolite presenting a formation in blocks of parallelepiped shapes. It is close to the Roches de Borée and the Gouleïou juice. Many screes are visible on the slopes.
The Marmots of Mézenc
Alpine marmots were introduced between 1980 and 1991 in the outskirts of Mont Mézenc, from the Gandoulet site. In 2011, more than 125 family groups were identified around this massif.
Sara's juice
Suc de Sara is located at the eastern limit of the Mézenc massif in the municipality of Borée. The slopes are very steep, the altitude varying from approximately 1100 to 1521 m over short distances.
True source of the Loire
This source corresponds to the official source indicated on the cadastral plan n° 87. It flows in a natural environment, it comes out of the ground in a meadow, under a stone which bears the inscription "here begins my road to the ocean".
Authentic source of the Loire
The "authentic source" symbolizes, by the monument erected in 1938 by the Touring Club of France, the source of the Loire. Nearby, a triptych of information on the Gerbier-de-Jonc platform and the Maison de site.