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Key facts
- Elevation
- 694 m (2,277 ft)
- Prominence
- 119 m (390 ft)
- Listing
- Country high point
- Location
- Liège Province , Wallonia , Belgium
- Parent range
- Hautes Fagnes
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Communication tower on the Signal de Botrange Signal de Botrange is the highest point in Wallonia and Belgium, located in the High Fens (Hautes Fagnes in French, Hohes Venn in German, Hoge Venen in Dutch), at 694 metres (2,277 feet). It is the top of a broad plateau and a road crosses the summit, passing an adjacent café. It is also the highest point in the Ardennes and in the European part of the Benelux.
For several decades a meteorological station was installed at Signal de Botrange. Since 1999, it was replaced by an automatic station of the Royal Meteorological Institute of Belgium installed on Mount Rigi (scientific station of the High Fens - University of Liège), which is between the Signal and Baraque Michel which was formerly the highest point in Belgium prior to the annexation of the Eastern Cantons in 1919.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Signal de Botrange” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.