Cauterets is a French commune located in the south-western part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department, in the Occitanie region.
It lies in the heart of the Pyrenees National Park. Nature is unspoilt and close at hand. Cauterets is 30 minutes from Lourdes, and the village is at the center of many of the Pyrenees' must-see sites: Pic du Midi, Gavarnie, Lourdes, Hautacam, Parc Animalier des Pyrénées, Donjon des Aigles, Val d'Azun, Pays Toy, Tourmalet...
Surrounded by the high mountains of the Pyrenees, the village of Cauterets lies in the narrow valley of the Gave de Cauterets, a mountain stream that continues the Gave de Jéret and the Gave du Marcadau and their tributaries, the Gave de Lutour and the Gave de Gaube. The village provides access to a number of hiking trails that lead to natural tourist sites such as Péguère, Lac de Gaube, Petit Vignemale (3,032 m), Pont d'Espagne, a mountainside village with a waterfall, and the small massif of La Fruitière.
The lowest altitude, 503 m, lies to the north, where the Gave de Cauterets leaves the municipal territory and enters that of Soulom. The maximum altitude, 3,298 m, corresponds to the highest point in the French Pyrenees, the Vignemale, marking the border with Spain.
It is both a spa and a winter sports resort.
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