Col de l’Échelle
Col de l'Échelle is a mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Hautes-Alpes in France. It is the lower mountain pass between France and Italy and connects Vallée de la Clarée and Vallée Étroite.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: K.Weise, Public domain.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Rencontre de Névache and Tour Jaune de Barabbas.
Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Rencontre de Névache
Church
Photo: Tartine78, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Rencontre de Névache is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Plampinet and Ville Haute.
Col de l’Échelle
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 1,777 metres
- Description: mountain pass
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Névache, Arrondissement of Briançon, Hautes-Alpes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, Europe
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Latitude
45.02648° or 45° 1′ 35″ northLongitude
6.65699° or 6° 39′ 25″ eastElevation
1,777 metres (5,830 feet)Open location code
8FQ82MG4+HQOpenStreetMap ID
node 443430844OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Occitan—“Col de l’Échelle” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Col de l’Échelle”
- Cebuano: “Col de l’Échelle”
- Dutch: “Col de l’Echelle”
- Dutch: “Col de l’Échelle”
- French: “Col de l’Echelle”
- French: “col de l’Échelle”
- French: “Col de l’Échelle”
- Italian: “Col de l’Échelle”
- Italian: “Colle della Scala”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Còl de l’Eschala”
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Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Bois de Saint-Hippolyte and Bois de l’Essarte.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Col de l’Échelle and Col de Saint-Hippolyte.
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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 “Col de l’Échelle”. Photo: K.Weise, Public domain.