Coma Pedrosa

Where is Coma Pedrosa?

Coma Pedrosa is part of the Pyrenees.

You will find it in: Andorra.

Summit: 42.591° N, 1.445° E

The story behind it

Coma Pedrosa stands above the village of Arinsal, where a stone path climbs past streams, sheep pastures and a mountain hut before the last steep slope of loose rock begins. The mountain is made of hard grey rock that ice ground and polished long ago, which is why small cold lakes now lie in the hollows around it. In Catalan, the language of Andorra, a coma is exactly such a high hollow, so the name simply describes the shape of the place. Marmots whistle among the boulders, chamois pick their way across the screes, and eagles circle over the ridges on warm afternoons. Snow covers the summit for much of the year, so most walkers come in late summer, when the path is clear and the whole small country lies spread out below.

Find it on the globe

Coma Pedrosa is there as a small peak with its own shape — a horn, a ridge, a volcano — standing on the surface. From far away the planet is only a blue ball; detail arrives as you zoom in, and this one appears once you are close enough. Open it on the globe.

It sits at its real coordinates, not near them — the same numbers listed in the facts above. Switch off the layer for this kind of place and it disappears again; the buttons for that are down the right-hand edge.