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Les Houches
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Les Houches is a commune in France, situated within the canton of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, the arrondissement of Bonneville, and the department of Haute-Savoie. It is located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region and shares borders with Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, Passy, Saint-Gervais-les-Bains, and Servoz. The town has a population of 3,529, comprising 1,473 males and 1,470 females.
The administrative area covers 43.07 square kilometers. The elevation above sea level is recorded as 4,280 meters in one dataset and 1,005 meters in another. The commune uses the postal code 74310 and falls under the Europe/Paris timezone. Its official website is leshouches.fr, and the local townhall is a designated feature within the town.
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Place details
- Locality
- Les Houches
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Country
- France
- Population
- 0
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
- Department
- Haute-Savoie
- Arrondissement
- Bonneville
- Canton
- Le Mont-Blanc
- Intercommunality
- CC de la Vallée de Chamonix-Mont-Blanc
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Ghislaine Bossonney
- Area
- 43.07 km (16.63 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 3,515
- Density
- 81.61/km (211.4/sq mi)
- Demonym
- Houchards
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 74143 /74310
- Elevation
- 796–1,950 m (2,612–6,398 ft) , (avg. 1,008 m or 3,307 ft)
- Website
- www.leshouches.fr
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Les Houches ( French pronunciation: [le.z‿uʃ]; Arpitan: Les Ouches or Les Oucies) is an alpine commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. It is located just west of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, in the larger canton of Le Mont-Blanc.
Overview
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Les Houches” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.