The Causses (French pronunciation: [kos]) are a group of limestone plateaux (700–1,200 m) in the Massif Central.

They are bordered to the north-west by the Limousin and the Périgord uplands, and to the east by the Aubrac and the Cévennes.

Large river gorges cut through the plateaux, such as the Tarn, Dourbie, Jonte, Lot, Vis, and Aveyron.

The Causses and the Cévennes, Mediterranean agro-pastoral Cultural Landscape was added to the UNESCO World Heritage list in 2011, because of the region's extensive and continuous use of Mediterranean pastoral systems and their testimony to the traditional methods of transhumance.

[2] Characteristics of the region are large farm complexes made out of limestone and long, low stone buildings (often more than 10 meters in length) called les Jasses which are used to house sheep in the winter.