Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Ardèche & Drôme
Arrondissement of Largentière

Vallon-Pont-d’Arc

Vallon-Pont-d'Arc is a town and commune in the Ardèche département, in south of France. Nearby cave of Pont d’Arc, known as Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc, decorated by well preserved prehistoric drawings of human figures and animals was inscribed to the World Heritage list in 2014.
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  • Type: Village with 2,440 residents
  • Description: commune in Ardèche, France
  • Also known as: “Vallibre” and “Vallon (devenue Vallon-Pont-d’Arc en 1948”
  • Postal codes: 07150 and 07150
  • Neighbors:

Places of Interest

Highlights include Chauvet Cave and Temple de Vallon-Pont-d’Arc.

Cave
Photo: Inocybe, Public domain.
The Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave in the department of southeastern France is a cave that contains some of the best-preserved figurative cave paintings in the world, as well as other evidence of Upper Paleolithic life.

Church
Photo: René Dinkel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a church.

Church
Photo: Prankster, Public domain.
is a church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Salavas and Pont d’Arc.

Village
Photo: René Dinkel, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a commune in the department in southern .

Locality
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The Pont d'Arc is a large natural bridge, located in the département in the south of , 5 km from the town of Vallon-Pont-d'Arc. The arch, formed when the river broke through a narrow escarpment between its meander, is 59 metres wide and 34 m high at the top of the opening.

Vallon-Pont-d’Arc

Latitude
44.4048° or 44° 24′ 17″ north
Longitude
4.3929° or 4° 23′ 34″ east
Population
2,440
Elevation
111 metres (364 feet)
Name during the French Revolution
“Vallibre”
United Nations Location Code
FR VPC
Open location code
8FP6C93V+W5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 33206631
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2970885
Wiki­data ID
Q238386
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Vallon-Pont-d’Arc” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Albanian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Arabic: “فالون بون دارك”
  • Aragonese: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Armenian: “Վալոն Պոն դ’Արկ”
  • Arpitan: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Asturian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Bambara: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Basque: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Bavarian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Breton: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Buginese: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Cajun French: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Catalan: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Catalan: “Valon”
  • Cebuano: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Chechen: “Валлон-Пон-д’АгӀк”
  • Chinese: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Chinese: “瓦隆蓬达尔克”
  • Chinese: “瓦隆蓬達爾克”
  • Corsican: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Croatian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Czech: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Danish: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Dimli (individual language): “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Dutch: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “فالون بون دارك”
  • Esperanto: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Estonian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Faroese: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Finnish: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • French: “07330”
  • French: “Chames”
  • French: “Saint-Martin-d’Arc”
  • French: “Vallibre”
  • French: “Vallon (devenue Vallon-Pont-d’Arc en 1948”
  • French: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • French: “Vallon”
  • French: “Vallons Pont d’Arc”
  • Friulian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Galician: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Georgian: “ვალონ-პონ-დ’არკი”
  • Georgian: “ვალონ-პონ-დარკი”
  • German: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Hebrew: “ואלון פון-ד’ארק”
  • Hungarian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Icelandic: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Ido: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Indonesian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Interlingua: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Interlingue: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Irish: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Italian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Jamaican Creole English: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Japanese: “ヴァロン＝ポン＝ダルク”
  • Kabyle: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Kalaallisut: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Kongo: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Korean: “발롱퐁다르크”
  • Ladin: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Latin: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Latvian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Ligurian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Limburgan: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Lithuanian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Lombard: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Low German: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Luxembourgish: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Mainfränkisch: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Malagasy: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Malay: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Minangkabau: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Narom: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Neapolitan: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Avalon (de Pont d’Arc)”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Valon”
  • Papiamento: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Persian: “والون پون دارک”
  • Picard: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Piemontese: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Polish: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Portuguese: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Prussian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Romagnol: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Romanian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Romansh: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Russian: “Валлон-Пон-д’Арк”
  • Sardinian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Scots: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Serbian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Sicilian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Slovak: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Slovenian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Spanish: “Vallon Pont d’Arc”
  • Spanish: “Vallon Pont-d’Arc”
  • Spanish: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Swahili: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Swedish: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Swiss German: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Turkish: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Ukrainian: “Валлон-Пон-д’Арк”
  • Ukrainian: “Валон-Пон-д’Арк”
  • Uzbek: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Venetian: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Vietnamese: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Vlaams: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
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  • Walloon: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
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  • Yue Chinese: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
  • Zulu: “Vallon-Pont-d’Arc”
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