It is the most mountainous of the Mediterranean islands, Corsica is the third one for surface. Its narrowness and its historical and cultural inheritance do that is a very singular region inside the France territory. It is composed by two departments, The High Corsica and the South Corsica. For a long time, the coast was an object of greeds and conflicts.

The physical geography of the mountain is present throughout and reaches its maximum point in the 2. 706 m on Cinto. Strong hillsides, favorable to an intense erosion, provoke the population subdivision in valleys often closed by gorges.