Besse
Besse is a commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. Besse has an elevation of 1,557 metres.- Type: Locality with 129 residents
- Description: commune in Isère, France
- Also known as: “38040” and “Besse, Isère”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Col de Sarenne and Lac du Chambon.
Col de Sarenne
Mountain saddle
Col de Sarenne is a mountain pass located in the Grandes Rousses massif, approximately 9 km east of Alpe d'Huez in the Isère department of France. The pass connects Alpe d'Huez with the villages of Mizoën and Le Freney-d'Oisans in the Romanche valley.
Lac du Chambon
Reservoir
Lac du Chambon is a reservoir created in 1934 on the Romanche river in Isère, Rhône-Alpes, France. At an elevation of 1040 m, its surface area is 1.4 km2.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mizoën and Mont-de-Lans.
Mont-de-Lans
Village
Mont-de-Lans is a former commune in the Isère department in southeastern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Les Deux Alpes. Mont-de-Lans is situated 5 km southwest of Besse.
Besse
- Category: commune of France
- Location: Arrondissement of Grenoble, Isère, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude
45.0717° or 45° 4′ 18″ north
Longitude
6.17° or 6° 10′ 12″ east
Population
129
Elevation
1,557 metres (5,108 feet)
Open location code
8FQ835C9+MX
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Besse” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Besse”
- Arabic: “باس (إزار)”
- Arabic: “باس”
- Aragonese: “Beça d’Oisens”
- Aragonese: “Besse”
- Arpitan: “Besse”
- Asturian: “Besse”
- Azerbaijani: “Bess”
- Bambara: “Besse”
- Basque: “Besse”
- Bavarian: “Besse”
- Cajun French: “Besse”
- Catalan: “Beça”
- Catalan: “Besse”
- Cebuano: “Besse, Isère”
- Cebuano: “Besse”
- Chechen: “Бесс”
- Chinese: “Besse”
- Chinese: “貝斯”
- Chinese: “贝斯”
- Corsican: “Besse”
- Croatian: “Besse”
- Czech: “Besse”
- Danish: “Besse”
- Dutch: “Besse (Isere)”
- Dutch: “Besse”
- Esperanto: “Besse”
- Estonian: “Besse”
- Faroese: “Besse”
- Finnish: “Besse”
- French: “Besse-en-Oisans”
- French: “Besse”
- Friulian: “Besse”
- Galician: “Besse”
- German: “Besse”
- Hungarian: “Besse”
- Icelandic: “Besse”
- Ido: “Besse”
- Indonesian: “Besse”
- Interlingua: “Besse”
- Interlingue: “Besse”
- Irish: “Besse”
- Italian: “Besse”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Besse”
- Kabyle: “Besse”
- Kalaallisut: “Besse”
- Kongo: “Besse”
- Kurdish: “Besse, Isère”
- Kurdish: “Besse”
- Ladin: “Besse”
- Latin: “Besse”
- Latvian: “Besse”
- Ligurian: “Besse”
- Limburgan: “Besse”
- Lithuanian: “Besse”
- Lombard: “Besse”
- Low German: “Besse”
- Luxembourgish: “Besse”
- Mainfränkisch: “Besse”
- Malagasy: “Besse, Isère”
- Malagasy: “Besse”
- Malay: “Besse, Isère”
- Malay: “Besse”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Besse”
- Minangkabau: “Besse”
- Narom: “Besse”
- Neapolitan: “Besse”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Besse”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Besse”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Beça d’Oisens”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Besse”
- Papiamento: “Besse”
- Picard: “Besse”
- Piemontese: “Besse”
- Polish: “Besse”
- Portuguese: “Besse”
- Prussian: “Besse”
- Romagnol: “Besse”
- Romanian: “Besse, Isère”
- Romanian: “Besse”
- Romansh: “Besse”
- Russian: “Бесс”
- Sardinian: “Besse”
- Scots: “Besse”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Besse”
- Serbian: “Bes”
- Serbian: “Besse”
- Serbian: “Бес”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Besse”
- Sicilian: “Besse”
- Slovak: “Besse”
- Spanish: “Besse”
- Swahili: “Besse”
- Swedish: “Besse, Isère”
- Swedish: “Besse”
- Swiss German: “Besse”
- Tatar: “Бесс”
- Turkish: “Besse”
- Ukrainian: “Бесс”
- Uzbek: “Besse”
- Venetian: “Besse”
- Vietnamese: “Besse, Isère”
- Vietnamese: “Besse”
- Vlaams: “Besse”
- Volapük: “Besse”
- Walloon: “Besse”
- Waray (Philippines): “Besse, Isère”
- Waray (Philippines): “Besse”
- Welsh: “Besse”
- Wolof: “Besse”
- Zulu: “Besse”
- “Besse”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Lac de la Chambon and Plateau D’Emparis.
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