Mont Bégo

Mont Bégo (Italian: Monte Bego; Ligurian: Monte Begu) is a mountain in the Mercantour massif of the Maritime Alps, in southern France, with an elevation of 2,872 metres (9,423 ft).

It is included in the Vallée des Merveilles ("Valley of Marvels").

The name derives from the ancient Indo-European root beg, meaning "divine"; it was, in fact a sacred area to the Liguri tribe, together with the Monte Beigua and Monte Sagro in Italy.

It is mostly composed of conglomerates from the Permian period.

According to the SOIUSA (International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps) the mountain can be classified in the following way:[2] Media related to Mont Bégo at Wikimedia Commons