Lepontine Alps
Sign in to saverange of mountains in North-Western part of the Alps
Key facts
- Peak
- Monte Leone
- Elevation
- 3,553 m (11,657 ft)
- Listing
- Prominent mountains of the Alps
- Coordinates
- 46°14′59″N 8°06′37″E / 46.24972°N 8.11028°E / 46.24972; 8.11028
- Native name
- German : Lepontinische Alpen Italian : Alpi Lepontine
- Countries
- Switzerland Italy
- Cantons regions
- Valais Ticino Graubünden Uri Piedmont Lombardy
- Parent range
- Western Alps
- Borders on
- Pennine Alps Bernese Alps Uri Alps Glarus Alps Western Rhaetian Alps Lugano Prealps
- Topo map
- Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
- Orogeny
- Alpine orogeny
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- alpine section
- Country
- Italy
- Located in
- Lombardy
- Area
- 12639
- Elevation
- 1699
- Highest point
- Monte Leone
- Image
- Parte delle alpi lepontine.jpg
- Width
- 196
- Length
- 151
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Encyclopedic overview
The Lepontine Alps (German: Lepontinische Alpen, French: Alpes lépontines, Italian: Alpi Lepontine) are a mountain range in the north-western part of the Alps. They are located in Switzerland (Valais, Ticino, Uri and Graubünden) and Italy (Piedmont and Lombardy).
The Simplon rail tunnel (from Brig to Domodossola), the Gotthard rail (from Erstfeld to Bodio) and Gotthard road tunnels (from Andermatt to Airolo) and the San Bernardino road tunnel are important transport arteries.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lepontine Alps” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
On the map
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