The region of Aquitaine occupies a surface of 41,309 km², equivalent to the one of Belgium, Holland or Switzerland. One is made up of 5 departments: Dordogne, Gironde, Landes, Lot & Garonne and Pyrénées Atlantiques. It offers a privileged frame of life: the coast (270 km of coasts of the estuary from the Gironde to the Spanish border), rural and urban mountain (chain of the Pyrenees).
The tourism in Aquitaine leans in one long tradition of vistantes (6 million tourists to the year of which a million are foreign) interested in the quality and the number of places to visit natural and the wealth of the cultural and architectonic patrimony. Their 270 km of the Atlantic coast, the National Park of the Pyrenees, the Regional Natural Park of Moors and the one of Périgord-Limousin, the prehistoric grottos (Lascaux...), the Périgord, the French Basque Country, the river basin of Arcachon, the noble wines of Bordeaux, the termalismo... complete attractive the natural one of the region of Aquitania. It is in itself a tourist supply based on the sport and the activities of leisure: surf, golf, ski, guard, senderismo or rafting.