Savoy Prealps

Savoy Prealps
Préalpes de Savoie

Haute Cime (Dents du Midi)
Highest point
Peak Haute Cime des Dents du Midi
Elevation 3,257 m (10,686 ft)
Coordinates 46°09′39″N 6°55′23″E / 46.16083°N 6.92306°E / 46.16083; 6.92306Coordinates: 46°09′39″N 6°55′23″E / 46.16083°N 6.92306°E / 46.16083; 6.92306
Geography
Country France / Switzerland
Région, Canton, Rhône-Alpes / Valais
Parent range Alps
Borders on
Geology
Orogeny Alpine orogeny
Age of rock Tertiary
Type of rock Sedimentary rocks[1]

The Savoy Prealps (Préalpes de Savoie in French) are a mountain range in the north-western part of the Alps. They are located in Rhône-Alpes (south-eastern France) and, marginally, in Valais (western Switzerland). Savoy Prealps encompass northernmost area of the French Prealps.

Geography

Administratively the French part of the range belongs to the French departments of Savoie, Haute Savoie and Isère while the Swiss one is divided between the districts of Saint-Maurice and Monthey. The whole range is drained by the Rhone river.

Summits

The Dent de Crolles, in the SW part of the range

The chief summits of the range are:

Namemetresfeet
Haute Cime des Dents du Midi 3,257 10,682
Tour Sallière3,220 10,561
Mont Ruan3,05710,026
Aiguille du Belvédère 2,965 9,725
Pointe Percée2,750 9,020
Le Brévent2,525 8,282
Hauts-Forts2,466 8,088
Mont de Grange2,432 7,976
La Tournette2,351 7,711
Arcalod2,217 7,271
Trélod2,181 7,153
Chamechaude2,082 6,828
Dent de Crolles2,062 7,763

References

  1. Préalpes, article on Larousse encyclopeia (on line version:www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie)

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