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Mount Baigura Mount Baigura Mount Baigura, "Baïgura", "Baygoura" or "Baighoura" (el. 897 m./2943 ft.) is a mountain of the inner French Basque Country. Transmitters are set up near its summit. The leisure center ("base de loisir") at Baigura, on the road from Hélette to Louhossoa (in the commune of Mendionde), organizes paragliding activity on the northern slope of the mountain. The name "Baigura" is related to modern Euskara (Basque) "ibar" 'valley', "ibai" 'river' and "guren" 'limit' and means 'the end of valley'. Mount Baigura is the highest point of a small isolated pre-pyrenean massif inside the French Basque Country in the southwest