Situated to the south of the Massif-central, nearly taking contours of the old province of the Gévaudan, the Lozère is the fifth department of the Languedoc-Roussillon, the only that doesn't have any beaches. With a superior middle altitude to 1000 meters, that is to say most elevated of France, the Lozère is nicknamed the roof of France. Its continental situation confers him of the rough winters and of been them hot and short. It is also the castle of water of France and the Lozère even failed to be called the department of sources in 1790, what drove a countryside of the general advice on the Lozère theme " of sources ". The hydrographic network includes 2740 kilometers distributed in 437 rivers (well-known for their trouts) that all take their source in Lozère. One can mention for example to ally him that will be going to throw itself/themselves in the Loire, The Share and the Tarn in the Garonne, and in short roaches that will constitute with the Rhone the delta of the Camargue. One perceives therefore that the line of water sharing between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean passes by the Lozère.

With 73000 inhabitants, the Lozère is the minus populated metropolitan department of France. Its density of population, 14 inhabitants to the square kilometer reach less than 1 inhabitant to the square kilometer on the Méjean causse. In 1840, the Lozère counted 140000 inhabitants. It lost the half of its population therefore in one century and half. Today the tendency seems to reverse itself. The prefecture, Mende, situated to the geographical center of the department, counts 12000 inhabitants. Florac, capital of the Cévennes is the smallest under-prefecture of France with its two thousand inhabitants. The other important cities are to the north Saint-Chély of Apcher (4500 habs), to the west Marvejols (5500 habs) given back famous by the movie " 37°2 the morning ", and to the Langogne East (3500 habs). The Lozère is shared by two national, the N88 Lyon/Toulouse axis that cuts it of is in west, and the N106 Clermont-Ferrand/Nîmes axis that cuts it of the north in the south. Since some years, the freeway A75 Clermont-Ferrand/Bézierses crossbar the Lozère while bordering the Aubrac and the Valley of the Share. Lozérienses partiquents again regularly the language of oc.

                     
His five hundred fifty thousand hectares analyze themselves in five natural regions that one distinguishes comfortably by the nature of soils. Basalt, chalky, shale and granite.

Valleys and Gorges

Aubrac

Margeride

Cévennes

Causses

You can also visit some animal parks