Pyrenees-Orientales (eastern Pyrenees) is one of the departments of France that forms part of the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France - it is the most southern in the Languedoc region and forms part of the border with Spain. The region has two characteristics that are the coastal section and the inland section. Both are within reach during a visit to the department the holy but not very high Mount Canigou rules much of the interior of the region. The region that lies between Mount Canigou and the coast to the south of Perpignan is known as the Albères. This rocky area runs along the frontier between France and Spain.

The Pyrenees-Orientales is a beautiful department located on the Mediterranean and bordered by Spain. The farm land in Pyrenees-Orientales is devoted to wine-growing, market-gardening and fruit culture, the production of cereals being comparatively unimportant. The major resource of wealth to the department is its wine, of which some kinds are strongly alcoholic and others are in request as liqueur wines (Rivesaltes, Banyuls). The farming of early vegetables artichokes, asparagus, tomatoes, green peas is specially flourishing in the irrigated lowlands, and fruit-growing peaches, apricots, plums, pears, quinces, pomegranates, almonds, apples, cherries, walnuts, chestnuts which is chiefly carried on in the river valleys, yield abundant returns.