Hautes-Alpes
The French département Hautes-Alpes is marked by mountains and wild ranges. The tourist industry is largely dependent on skiing in winter. In summer the Alpine scenery and many outdoor activities attract visitors from across Europe.Photo: Aups, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Briançon and Veynes.
Briançon
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Briançon is a city in Hautes-Alpes near to France's Italian border. It is the highest town in France.
Veynes
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Veynes is a city of 3,200 people in the western part of the Hautes-Alpes on the right bank of the Petit Buëch river. The small city lies on the road which connects the Drôme on the west side with Gap on the east side.
Risoul
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Risoul is one of the many ski resorts in the French Hautes-Alpes. The resort, which is 12 km above the original village of Risoul, is also known as Risoul 1850 or Risoul Station.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Écrins National Park and Serre-Chevalier.
Écrins National Park
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Écrins National Park is a French national park in the departments of Hautes-Alpes and Isère. The park is the Ecrins mountain range, which is in the French Alps bordered to the south by the Durance valley, to the north by the Romanche valley, and to the west by the Drac and Buech valleys.
Serre-Chevalier
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Serre-Chevalier is a massive French ski-resort. It is situated in the Hautes-Alpes near the Italian border. It is one of the biggest ski resort in Europe with more than 250 km slopes between 1200 and 2800m. The towns included in this resort are:…
Queyras
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The Queyras Regional Natural Park is in the Hautes-Alpes part of France.
Hautes-Alpes
- Type: department of France with 142,000 residents
- Description: department in southeastern France named after the Alps mountain range
- Neighbors: Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Isère, Piedmont, and Savoie
- Location: Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, France, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zeeuws—“Hautes-Alpes” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Albanian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Arabic: “الألب العليا”
- Arabic: “هوت آلب (إقليم فرنسي)”
- Aragonese: “Altos Alpes”
- Armenian: “Վերին Ալպեր”
- Arpitan: “Hiôtes-Ârpes”
- Arpitan: “Hôtes-Arpes”
- Asturian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Azerbaijani: “Yuxarı Alplar”
- Balinese: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Basque: “Alpe Garaiak”
- Bavarian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Belarusian: “Верхнія Альпы”
- Belarusian: “дэпартамент Верхнія Альпы”
- Bengali: “হাউতেস আল্পিস”
- Bosnian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Breton: “Alpoù-Uhel”
- Bulgarian: “Отз Алп”
- Catalan: “Alts Alps”
- Cebuano: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Chechen: “Лакха Альпаш”
- Chinese: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Chinese: “上阿尔卑斯省”
- Chinese: “上阿爾卑斯”
- Chinese: “上阿爾卑斯省”
- Chuvash: “Тури Альп”
- Corsican: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Croatian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Croatian: “Visoke Alpe”
- Czech: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Danish: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Dutch: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Esperanto: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Estonian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Estonian: “Hautes-Alpesi departemang”
- Finnish: “Hautes-Alpes”
- French: “département des Hautes-Alpes”
- French: “Département des Hautes-Alpes”
- French: “FR-05”
- French: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Galician: “Alpes Altos”
- Galician: “Altos Alpes”
- Georgian: “ზემო ალპები”
- German: “Département Hautes-Alpes”
- German: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Greek: “Ωτ-Αλπ”
- Gujarati: “હોટસ-આલ્પ્સ”
- Hakka Chinese: “Sông Alpes-sén”
- Hebrew: “האלפים העליונים”
- Hindi: “ओटेस-एल्पेस”
- Hungarian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Icelandic: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Ido: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Indonesian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Interlingua: “Departimento Hautes-Alpes”
- Irish: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Italian: “Alte Alpi”
- Japanese: “オート＝アルプ県”
- Javanese: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Kannada: “ಹೌಟೆಸ್-ಆಲ್ಪ್ಸ್”
- Kazakh: “Жоғарғы Альпілер”
- Kongo: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Korean: “오트잘프주”
- Kurdish: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Ladin: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Ladino: “Hautes Alpes”
- Latin: “Alpes superiores”
- Latin: “Alpes Superiores”
- Latvian: “Augšalpi”
- Limburgan: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Lithuanian: “Aukštutinės Alpės”
- Lombard: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Low German: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Luxembourgish: “Departement Hautes-Alpes”
- Macedonian: “Горни Алпи”
- Malagasy: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Malay: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Marathi: “ऑत-आल्प”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Narom: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Northern Frisian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Northern Sami: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Norwegian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Auts Aups”
- Ossetian: “Уæллаг Альпæтæ”
- Pampanga: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Persian: “اتز-آلپ”
- Persian: “اوت-آلپ”
- Piemontese: “Dipartiment ëd j’Àute Alp”
- Polish: “Alpy Wysokie”
- Portuguese: “Altos Alpes”
- Romanian: “departamentul Hautes-Alpes”
- Romanian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Russian: “Верхние Альпы”
- Scots: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Serbian: “Горњи Алпи”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Sinhala: “හවුටෙස්-ඇල්ප්ස්”
- Slovak: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Slovenian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Spanish: “Altos Alpes”
- Swahili: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Swedish: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Swiss German: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Алп Болоӣ”
- Tajik: “Департаменти Алп Верхние”
- Tamil: “ஹஉட்ஸ்-ஆல்ப்ஸ்”
- Telugu: “హాటెస్-ఆల్పెస్”
- Telugu: “హాట్స్-ఆల్పెస్”
- Thai: “จังหวัดโอตซาลป์”
- Tosk Albanian: “Département Hautes-Alpes”
- Turkish: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Ukrainian: “Верхні Альпи”
- Urdu: “بالائی-آلپ”
- Venetian: “Alte Alpe”
- Vietnamese: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Vlaams: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Volapük: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Hautes-Alpes”
- Welsh: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Western Frisian: “Hautes-Alpes”
- Western Panjabi: “ضلع اوٹز الپس”
- Wu Chinese: “上阿尔卑斯省”
- Yue Chinese: “上阿爾卑斯”
- Zeeuws: “Hautes-Alpes”
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