Lac de Roy
Lac de Roy is a lake in Haute-Savoie, France. It is located 2 km west of le Praz de Lys ski resort, in the commune of Taninges.Photo: Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Tournasol7, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Praz de Lys-Sommand and Pointe de Haut Fleury.
Praz de Lys-Sommand
Photo: Rémih, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Praz de Lys-Sommand is a small ski resort in Haute-Savoie. It is located on the town of Mieussy and Taninges.
Col de la Ramaz
Mountain saddle
Photo: Raph74290, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Col de la Ramaz is a high mountain pass in the Alps in the department of Haute-Savoie in France through which the Tour de France passed during 2003, 2010, 2016 and the 2023 race). The road through the pass culminates slightly higher, at 1619m.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mieussy and Taninges.
Mieussy
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Mieussy is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France. It is a traditional Alpine farming village in the Vallée du Giffre, around 35 kilometers east of Geneva.
Taninges
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Taninges is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Taninges is a pleasant town of over 3000 people in the French Alps, about 35 km directly east-southeast of Geneva and close to the commune of Cluses.
Les Gets
Lac de Roy
- Type: Lake
- Description: French lake
- Categories: glacial lake and body of water
- Location: Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude
46.14312° or 46° 8′ 35″ northLongitude
6.5736° or 6° 34′ 25″ eastElevation
1,656 metres (5,433 feet)Open location code
8FR84HVF+6COpenStreetMap ID
way 30685629OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=lakeGeoNames ID
6452928Wikidata ID
Q3215532
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Russian—“Lac de Roy” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Ռուա (լիճ)”
- Armenian: “Ռուա”
- Dutch: “Lac de Roy”
- French: “lac de Roy”
- French: “Lac de Roy”
- Russian: “Руа (озеро)”
- Russian: “Руа”
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Highlights include Pointe Perret and Frête de Penaille.
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