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The Pont d'Arc is a large natural bridge, located in the Ardèche département in the south of France.
The arch, carved out by the Ardèche River, is 60 m wide and 54 m high. The natural arch is the symbol of "Réserve naturelle des gorges de l'Ardèche", a French nature reserve.
It is an arc very well known in France, both for its size, both because, unlike most of the natural arches on a river, is located on a river still active.
In the near vicinity of the arch is the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, containing the earliest known paleolithic cave paintings, about 30,000 years old.