Pic de Canalbona
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Pic de Canalbona is a mountain of Catalonia
Catalonia
Catalonia is an autonomous community in northeastern Spain, with the official status of a "nationality" of Spain. Catalonia comprises four provinces: Barcelona, Girona, Lleida, and Tarragona. Its capital and largest city is Barcelona. Catalonia covers an area of 32,114 km² and has an...

, Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

. Located in the Montcalm Massif
Montcalm Massif
The Montcalm Massif is a mountain massif located in the Pyrenees, at the border between France and Spain, it has an altitude of 3077 metres above sea level....

, Pyrenees
Pyrenees
The Pyrenees is a range of mountains in southwest Europe that forms a natural border between France and Spain...

, it has an altitude of 2965 metres (9,728 ft) above sea level.

The Estanyol Occidental de Canalbona or Estany de Canalbona is a small glacial lake
Glacial lake
A glacial lake is a lake with origins in a melted glacier. Near the end of the last glacial period, roughly 10,000 years ago, glaciers began to retreat. A retreating glacier often left behind large deposits of ice in hollows between drumlins or hills. As the ice age ended, these melted to create...

 located between the Pic de Canalbona and the Rodó de Canalbona
Rodó de Canalbona
Rodó de Canalbona or Pic Rodó de Canalbona is a mountain of Catalonia. Located in the Montcalm Massif, Pyrenees, at the border between France and Spain, it has an altitude of 3004 metres above sea level....

, at the base of the "Collet Fals" in the Montcalm Massif near the Pica d'Estats
Pica d'Estats
Pica d'Estats is a 3,143-m-high mountain in the Montcalm Massif, Pyrenees. on the Spanish–French border, and is the highest mountain in Catalonia....

. The lake drains towards the Catalan side. The ice has usually totally melted at the end of the summer.

This mountain should not be confused with the Pic Rodó de Canalbona, a higher neighboring summit.
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