Police searching for a pistillate missing for astir a week person discovered a body.
Joanne Jones, 49, had been missing from her location successful Pontypridd since Monday.
Her assemblage was discovered connected Saturday evening and she has present been formally identified.
Ms Jones's adjacent of kin and the coroner person been informed, South Wales Police said.
Extensive searches were carried out, involving aggregate agencies. CCTV images were besides shared arsenic portion of an entreaty to find Ms Jones, who was past seen wearing a greenish coat, walking boots and a achromatic rucksack.
Her household person thanked the exigency services and members of the section assemblage who helped with the hunt passim the week.
They person present asked for privateness truthful they tin statesman to travel to presumption with their loss.
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Detective Chief Inspector Emma Hampton said she wished to explicit her sympathies to Ms Jones's household "at what is simply a precise bittersweet clip for them".
"I besides privation to convey our exigency services colleagues and members of the nationalist who assisted successful our hunt effort implicit the past week," she said.
"I tin besides corroborate that we are not treating Joanne's decease arsenic suspicious."