Les Houches
Les Houches is an alpine commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Southeastern France. It is located just west of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, in the larger canton of Le Mont-Blanc.
- Type: Locality with 2,930 residents
- Description: commune in Haute-Savoie, France
- Also known as: “74143”, “Houches”, “Léj Eûshë”, “Les Oucies”, “Les Ouçies”, “Léz Eushe”, “Léz Eûshe”, “Léz Eûtche”, “Léz Oshe”, “Léz Oufye”, “Ле Уш”, “Лезуш”, “Лезуше”, “Леуш”, “הוש”, “לה זוש”, “לה-זוש”, “לז-אוש”, and “לזוש”
- Neighbors: Chamonix and Saint-Gervais-les-Bains
Places of Interest
Highlights: Les Houches School of Physics and Les Houches station.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Chamonix and Bionnassay.
Grand Couloir
Locality
The Grand Couloir is a couloir on the Aiguille du Goûter. Grand Couloir is situated 4½ km southeast of Les Houches.
Les Houches
- Category: commune of France
- Location: Arrondissement of Bonneville, Haute-Savoie, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France, Europe
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Latitude
45.89° or 45° 53′ 24″ north
Longitude
6.7986° or 6° 47′ 55″ east
Population
2,930
Elevation
1,013 metres (3,323 feet)
Open location code
8FQ8VQQX+XC
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Les Houches” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Les Houches”
- Aragonese: “Les Houches”
- Arpitan: “Les Ouches”
- Asturian: “Les Houches”
- Bambara: “Les Houches”
- Basque: “Les Houches”
- Bavarian: “Les Houches”
- Breton: “Les Houches”
- Cajun French: “Les Houches”
- Catalan: “Les Houches”
- Cebuano: “Les Houches”
- Chechen: “Ле-Уш”
- Chinese: “莱苏什”
- Corsican: “Les Houches”
- Croatian: “Les Houches”
- Czech: “Les Houches”
- Danish: “Les Houches”
- Dimli (individual language): “Les Houches”
- Dutch: “Les Houches”
- Esperanto: “Les Houches”
- Estonian: “Les Houches”
- Faroese: “Les Houches”
- Finnish: “Les Houches”
- French: “Les Houches”
- Friulian: “Les Houches”
- Galician: “Les Houches”
- German: “Les Houches”
- Greek: “Λε Ους”
- Hebrew: “אוש”
- Hebrew: “לז אוש”
- Hindi: “लेज़ उश”
- Hungarian: “Les Houches”
- Icelandic: “Les Houches”
- Ido: “Les Houches”
- Indonesian: “Les Houches”
- Interlingua: “Les Houches”
- Interlingue: “Les Houches”
- Irish: “Les Houches”
- Italian: “Les Houches”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Les Houches”
- Jèrriais: “Les Houches”
- Kabyle: “Les Houches”
- Kalaallisut: “Les Houches”
- Kongo: “Les Houches”
- Kurdish: “Les Houches”
- Ladin: “Les Houches”
- Latin: “Hoschae”
- Latin: “Les Houches”
- Latvian: “Les Houches”
- Ligurian: “Les Houches”
- Limburgan: “Les Houches”
- Lithuanian: “Les Houches”
- Lombard: “Les Houches”
- Low German: “Les Houches”
- Luxembourgish: “Les Houches”
- Mainfränkisch: “Les Houches”
- Malagasy: “Les Houches”
- Malay: “Les Houches”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Les Houches”
- Minangkabau: “Les Houches”
- Neapolitan: “Les Houches”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Les Houches”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Les Houches”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Les Houches”
- Papiamento: “Les Houches”
- Picard: “Les Houches”
- Piemontese: “Les Houches”
- Polish: “Les Houches”
- Portuguese: “Les Houches”
- Prussian: “Les Houches”
- Romagnol: “Les Houches”
- Romanian: “Les Houches”
- Romansh: “Les Houches”
- Russian: “Лез-Уш”
- Sardinian: “Les Houches”
- Scots: “Les Houches”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Les Houches”
- Serbian: “Les Houches”
- Sicilian: “Les Houches”
- Slovak: “Les Houches”
- Slovenian: “Les Houches”
- Spanish: “Les Houches”
- Swahili: “Les Houches”
- Swedish: “Les Houches”
- Swiss German: “Les Houches”
- Tatar: “Лез-Уш”
- Turkish: “Les Houches”
- Ukrainian: “Ле-Уш”
- Urdu: “لیس ہوشس”
- Uzbek: “Les Houches”
- Venetian: “Les Houches”
- Vietnamese: “Les Houches”
- Vlaams: “Les Houches”
- Volapük: “Les Houches”
- Walloon: “Les Houches”
- Waray (Philippines): “Les Houches”
- Welsh: “Les Houches”
- Wolof: “Les Houches”
- Zulu: “Les Houches”
- “Les Houches”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Les Houches and La Griaz.
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Highlights: Viaduc-Sainte-Marie station and Mont Lachat.
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