Savoy Prealps

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; 6.92306
Naming
Native name| Préalpes de Savoie (French)
Geography
Countries| France and Switzerland
Région, Canton| Rhône-Alpes and Valais
Parent range| Alps
Borders on| Dauphiné Prealps, Dauphiné Alps, Graian Alps, Bernese Alps and Swiss Prealps
Geology
Orogeny| Alpine orogeny
Age of rock| Tertiary
Type of rock| Sedimentary rocks[1]

The Savoy Prealps (French: Préalpes de Savoie) 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[edit]

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[edit]

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

The chief summits of the range are:

Name | metres | feet

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Haute Cime des Dents du Midi | 3,257 | 10,682
Tour Sallière | 3,220 | 10,561
Mont Ruan | 3,057 | 10,026
Aiguille du Belvédère | 2,965 | 9,725
Pointe Percée | 2,750 | 9,020
Le Brévent | 2,525 | 8,282
Hauts-Forts | 2,466 | 8,088
Mont de Grange | 2,432 | 7,976
La Tournette | 2,351 | 7,711
Arcalod | 2,217 | 7,271
Trélod | 2,181 | 7,153
Chamechaude | 2,082 | 6,828
Dent de Crolles | 2,062 | 7,763

## References[edit]

1. ^ Préalpes, article on Larousse Encyclopedia (online version: www.larousse.fr/encyclopedie)

## Maps[edit]

* French official cartography (Institut Géographique National \- IGN); on-line version: www.geoportail.fr
* Swiss official cartography (Swiss Federal Office of Topography \- Swisstopo); on-line version: map.geo.admin.ch

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Western Alps

Sections
(as per SOIUSA)|

| South-western|

* (1) Ligurian Alps
* (2) Maritime Alps
* (3) Provence Alps and Prealps
* (4) Cottian Alps
* (5) Dauphiné Alps
* (6) Dauphiné Prealps

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North-western|

* (7) Graian Alps
* (8) Savoy Prealps
* (9) Pennine Alps
* (10) Lepontine Alps
* (11) Lugano Prealps
* (12) Bernese Alps i.t.w.m.
* (13) Glarus Alps
* (14) Swiss Prealps

Other ranges|

* Aravis Range
* Castellane Prealps
* Chablais Alps
* Digne Prealps
* Nice Prealps
* Vaucluse Mountains

Massifs|

* Aiguilles Rouges
* Arves
* Baronnies
* Bauges
* Beaufortain
* Belledonne
* Bochaine
* Bornes
* Cerces
* Chambeyron
* Chartreuse
* Dévoluy
* Diois
* Écrins
* Escreins
* Giffre
* Gran Paradiso
* Grandes Rousses
* Lauzière
* Luberon
* Mercantour-Argentera
* Mont Blanc
* Mont Cenis
* Parpaillon
* Pelat
* Queyras
* Taillefer
* Trois-Évêchés
* Vanoise
* Vercors

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Alpine sections according to the SOIUSA

Western Alps|

| South-western|

* (1) Ligurian Alps
* (2) Maritime Alps
* (3) Provence Alps and Prealps
* (4) Cottian Alps
* (5) Dauphiné Alps
* (6) Dauphiné Prealps

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North-western|

* (7) Graian Alps
* (8) Savoy Prealps
* (9) Pennine Alps
* (10) Lepontine Alps
* (11) Lugano Prealps
* (12) Bernese Alps i.t.w.m.
* (13) Glarus Alps
* (14) Swiss Prealps

Eastern Alps|

| Central-eastern|

* (15) Western Rhaetian Alps
* (16) Eastern Rhaetian Alps
* (17) Western Tauern Alps
* (18) Eastern Tauern Alps
* (19) Carinthian-Styrian Alps
* (20) Styrian Prealps

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North-eastern|

* (21) North Tyrol Limestone Alps
* (22) Bavarian Alps
* (23) Tyrol Schistose Alps
* (24) Northern Salzburg Alps
* (25) Salzkammergut and Upper Austria Alps
* (26) Northern Styrian Alps
* (27) Northern Lower Austria Alps

South-eastern|

* (28) Southern Rhaetian Alps
* (29) Bergamasque Alps and Prealps
* (30) Brescia and Garda Prealps
* (31) Dolomites
* (32) Venetian Prealps
* (33) Carnic and Gailtal Alps
* (34) Julian Alps and Prealps
* (35) Carintian-Slovenian Alps
* (36) Slovenian Prealps

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