Cime du Gélas
Cime du Gélas is a 3,143 m high mountain on the boundary between France and Italy. It is part of the Maritime Alps. It is the highest peak of the Mercantour National Park, while on the Italian side it is included in the Maritime Alps Natural Park.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,143 metres
- Description: Mountain of the Maritime Alps at the border Italy / France
- Also known as: “Cima dei Gelas”, “Cime du Gelas”, “Cime du Gélas / Monte Gelàs”, and “Cime du Gelas Sud”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Cime de la Malédie and Lac Blanc.
Cime de la Malédie
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cime de la Malédie is a mountain in the Maritime Alps, on the France–Italy border. Its French part is located in the upper Gordolasque valley, in the commune of Belvédère, in the department of Alpes-Maritimes.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vallée des merveilles.
Vallée des merveilles
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Vallée des Merveilles, also known in Italian as the Valle delle Meraviglie, is a part of the Mercantour National Park in southern France. It holds the largest quantity of open-air Bronze Age petroglyphs in Europe, after Val Camonica in Italy, and is given special note for the area's inclusion for the European Diploma of Protected Areas. Vallée des merveilles is situated 8 km southeast of Cime du Gélas.
Cime du Gélas
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Saint-Martin-Vésubie, Arrondissement of Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, Europe
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Latitude
44.12278° or 44° 7′ 22″ northLongitude
7.38421° or 7° 23′ 3″ eastElevation
3,143 metres (10,312 feet)Open location code
8FP949FM+4MOpenStreetMap ID
node 26863728OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Breton to Venetian—“Cime du Gélas” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Monte Gelàs”
- Catalan: “Cim de Gelàs”
- Catalan: “Cime du Gélas”
- Cebuano: “Cime de Gelas”
- Chinese: “熱拉峰”
- Czech: “Monte Gelàs”
- Danish: “Cime du Gélas”
- Dutch: “Cime de Gelas”
- Dutch: “Cime du Gelas”
- Dutch: “Cime du Gélas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل سيم دو جيلاس”
- French: “Cime de Gelas”
- French: “cime du Gélas”
- French: “Cime du Gélas”
- German: “Cime du Gélas”
- Italian: “Monte Gelàs”
- Ladin: “Cime du Gélas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Cime du Gélas”
- Piemontese: “Sima dël Gélas”
- Polish: “Monte Gelàs”
- Russian: “Джелас”
- Russian: “Жела”
- Spanish: “Monte Gelas”
- Venetian: “Monte Gelàs”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Canale Saint Robert and Le Balaour.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include brèche and Cime sud du Gélas.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cime du Gélas”. Photo: Gede77, Public domain.