Hautes-Alpes department

Hautes-Alpes
region	Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur
prefecture	Gap
Sub-prefecture (s)	Briançon
Residents	141,284 (Jan 1, 2017)
Population density	26 inhabitants per km²
surface	5,527.84 km²
Arrondissements	2
Community associations	9
Cantons	15th
Communities	162
President of the Department Council	Jean-Yves Dusserre
ISO-3166-2 code	FR-05
Location of the department of Hautes-Alpes in the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

The Hautes-Alpes department [ otzalp ] is the French department with the atomic number 05. It is in the southeast of the country in the region Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur at the Italian border and was so named because here - apart from the The peaks of the Mont-Blanc group in the Haute-Savoie department - the highest mountains in France are located.

geography

The department borders the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence , Drôme , Isère and Savoie departments as well as Italy .

The department is located in the southern part of the Western Alps. With the 4102  m high Barre des Écrins , the summit of the southernmost four-thousand-meter peak in the Alps lies in the area of ​​the department. The highest mountains include the Barre des Écrins La Meije ( 3983  m ), L'Ailefroide ( 3953  m ), Mont Pelvoux ( 3946  m ), Pic Gaspard ( 3883  m ), Pic de Neige-Cordier ( 3613  m) ). The passes include the Col Agnel ( 2744  m ), the Col du Galibier ( 2645  m ), the Col d'Izoard ( 2361  m ), the Col de Vars ( 2111  m ) and the Col du Lautaret ( 2058  m ).

Much of the department is drained by the south-flowing Durance and its tributaries Buëch , Clarée , Guil and Guisane . Only the Drac and Romanche rivers flow north. The largest lake is the almost 30 km² Lac de Serre-Ponçon reservoir .

The Hautes-Alpes department includes the landscapes of Briançonnais , Bochaine , Champsaur , Dévoluy , Embrunais , Gapençais , Guillestrois , Laragnais , Queyras , Veynois , Valgaudemar and the Pays des Écrins .

The Écrins National Park and the Queyras Regional Nature Park are the two important nature reserves in the Hautes-Alpes department.

coat of arms

Description: The coat of arms is split and shows a golden Tolosan cross in red in front and a blue dolphin in red in the back . In the blue head of the shield there are three rows of sown golden lilies .

history

By a law of December 22nd, 1789, the Hautes-Alpes department was created on March 4th 1790 as one of 83 departments. It was formed from the southeastern part of the Dauphiné province and the northern part of the Provence province and divided into the four arrondissements of Briançon , Embrun, Gap and Serres with 39 cantons. The main town became the municipality of Chorges , but the administration changed to Gap that same year . On February 17, 1800 there was a new division of the cantons into the arrondissements, with the arrondissement Serres being abolished. After the reform of September 10, 1926, the Arrondissement Embrun was also dissolved.

The department maintained a friendship with the Ilmenau district in the GDR district of Suhl in the 1960s and 1970s .

Communities

The municipalities of the department include next to Gap (40.895 Ew.) And Briançon (11.625 Ew.) Embrun (6155 Ew.), Laragne-Montéglin (3511 Ew.) And Veynes (3182 Ew.). The population figures refer to the reference date January 1, 2017. With Saint-Véran at an altitude of 2042  m , the highest municipality in France is located in the Hautes-Alpes department.

Administrative division

Communes and arrondissements in the Hautes-Alpes department

Arrondissement	Cantons	Communities	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE
Briançon	4th	36	34,898	1,896.09	18th	051
Gap	11	126	106.386	3,389.70	31	052
Hautes-Alpes department	15th	162	141.284	5,527.84	26th	05

See also:

• List of communes in the Hautes-Alpes department
• List of cantons in the Hautes-Alpes department
• List of associations of municipalities in the Hautes-Alpes department

Web links

Commons : Hautes-Alpes department  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• General Council of the Hautes-Alpes Department (French)
• Prefecture of the Hautes-Alpes department (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.cg05.fr/3069-conseillers-generaux.htm accessed on September 9, 2012
2. ↑ When the department was founded in 1790, the Mont-Blanc area was not yet part of France. Thus the Barre des Ecrins was the highest mountain in the country back then, before Savoy finally fell to France from 1796 to 1815 or from 1860.

Coordinates: 44 ° 41 ′  N , 6 ° 16 ′  E