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{{Short description|Mountain range on the Moon}} {{More citations needed|date=January 2024}} {{Infobox mountain | name = Montes Pyrenaeus | photo = Mare Nectaris.jpg | photo_caption = Mare Nectaris, bordered on its eastern edge by Montes Pyrenaeus | elevation = | listing = [[List of mountains on the Moon|Lunar mountains]] | translation = [[Pyrenees|Pyrénées Mountains]] | language = Latin | location = the [[Moon]] | coordinates = {{Lunar coords and quad cat|15.6|S|41.2|E}} | type = | age = }} '''Montes Pyrenaeus''' is a [[mountain range]] on the [[Moon]]. The range begins at the southwestern rim of the flooded crater [[Gutenberg (crater)|Gutenberg]] at the northern end and extends southward bordering the eastern edge of [[Mare Nectaris]]. The [[selenographic coordinates]] of this range are 15.6° S, 41.2° E, and it lies within a diameter of 164 km. [[Johann Heinrich Mädler|Johannes Mädler]] gave this range the [[Latin]] name for the [[Pyrenees|Pyrenees Mountains]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=1837. de Beer’s and Mädler’s Mappa Selenographica · Selenography: Three Centuries in Lunar Cartography · Bibliothèque numérique - Observatoire de Paris |url=https://bibnum.obspm.fr/exhibits/show/cartography/cartography_conquest/cartography_precise/cartography_beer_madler |access-date=2024-01-19 |website=bibnum.obspm.fr}}</ref> that lie along the border between [[France]] and [[Spain]].
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