Leone group
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 View of the Leone Group from Belalp. |
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| Highest peak | Monte Leone ( 3553 m above sea level ) |
| part of | Western alps |
| Coordinates | 659 213 / 131 357 |
| surface | 748 km² |
The Leone Group is a mountain group in the eastern part of the Western Alps ; it lies in the border area between the Swiss cantons of Valais and Ticino and the Italian province of Verbano-Cusio-Ossola in the Piedmont region . Its highest mountain is the Monte Leone , over whose summit the state border runs.
Location and area
The area is bounded (clockwise from the north) by Ägene (also Aegina, left tributary to the Rhone ), Nufenenpass , Ticino , San Giacomo , Toce , Diveria , Chrummbach, Simplonpass , Taferna, Saltina and Rotten (upper reaches of the Rhône) and covers one Area of 748 km 2 .
Groups and summits
The Leone Group is described here as an independent group, although it is actually a sub-group of the Valais Alps that bears the name Monte-Leone-Blinnenhorn Group . The two peaks named therein denote those lying on the continuous border ridge:
- in the south-west of Monte Leone 3553 m above sea level. M. and
- in the northeast the Blinnenhorn 3374 m above sea level. M. ,
- in between the Ofenhorn 3235 m above sea level. M.
The peaks are located slightly to the north - and thus entirely in Switzerland:
- of the Helsenhorn 3272 m above sea level. M. and
- of the Hillehorn 3181 m above sea level. M.
In the Alpine divisions according to SOIUSA and Swiss Alpine Club (SAC), the Leone Group merges into the Monte-Leone-Sankt-Gotthard Alps , which in turn contains parts of the Gotthard Group .
Valleys and places
To the southwest of the Blinnenhorn lies the Binntal and in it the only place Binn . The other places are grouped around the outside: Formazza , Baceno , Crodo , Gondo , Simplon , Brig , Fiesch , and Ulrichen . At the southern tip near Crevodossola in the Ashen valley is the lowest point at 288 m above sea level. M. , which results in a difference to the highest of 3265 m.
Images and web links
- Your Mountains: Leone Group - Mountaineering & Hiking Portal
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- ↑ Mountain album based on Johannes Führer in Bergwelt 1980, p. 38 ff.
- ↑ Ernst Höhne: Knaurs Lexikon für Bergfreunde / The Alps between Matterhorn and Lake Constance . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-426-26223-1 , p. 124 f .