Haute-Savoie
Arrondissement of Bonneville
Chamonix

Argentière

Argentière is a picturesque skiing, alpine walking and mountaineering village in the , part of the commune of , at an altitude of 1,252 m.
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  • Type: Village with 314 residents
  • Description: village in France
  • Also known as: “Argentiere” and “Argentières”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Argentière station and Aiguillette d’Argentiere.

Railway station
Photo: Poudou99, CC BY 3.0.
is a railway station in the commune of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, in the French department of . It is located on the 1,000 mm gauge Saint-Gervais–Vallorcine line of .

Peak
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is a peak.

Mountain saddle
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is a mountain pass in the in the department of . It is on the road between , the Swiss and in the canton of , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Montroc and Le Tour.

Hamlet
Photo: X-Weinzar, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a hamlet in eastern , located in the territory of the commune of . Several houses at Poses 150 m north-east of were destroyed on 9 February 1999 by a slab avalanche from Bec du Lachat and Mont Peclerey on the massif, killing 12 people.

Hamlet
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is a hamlet.

Hamlet
Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Les-Praz-de-Chamonix is a mountain village in the , part of the commune of . Altitude: 1060 m. is situated 6 km southwest of Argentière.

Argentière

Latitude
45.98384° or 45° 59′ 2″ north
Longitude
6.92986° or 6° 55′ 48″ east
Population
314
Elevation
1,245 metres (4,085 feet)
Open location code
8FQ8XWMH+GW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 285882627
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
3037042
Wiki­data ID
Q646321
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Spanish—“Argentière” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Argentiere”
  • Chinese: “阿让蒂耶尔”
  • Chinese: “阿讓蒂耶爾”
  • Dutch: “Argentière”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “ارجنتير”
  • French: “Argentière”
  • Galician: “Argentière”
  • German: “Argentiere”
  • German: “Argentière”
  • Italian: “Argentière”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Argentière”
  • Portuguese: “Argentière”
  • Russian: “Аржентьер”
  • Spanish: “Argentiere”
  • Spanish: “Argentière”

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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 “Argentière”. Photo: Kulmalukko, CC BY-SA 3.0.