Tete de Ran
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| height | 1422 m above sea level M. | |
| location | Canton of Neuchâtel , Switzerland | |
| Mountains | law | |
| Dominance | 2.1 km → Rochers Bruns | |
| Notch height | 40 m ↓ unnamed saddle | |
| Coordinates | 555530 / 211 627 | |
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The Tête de Ran is a 1422 m above sea level. M. high mountain peak in the Swiss Jura . The summit is located in the municipality of Val-de-Ruz (until 2012 Les Hauts-Geneveys ) in the canton of Neuchâtel , around 9 km northwest of the city of Neuchâtel . The name Ran comes from the patois and means something like slope , rain .
geography
The Tête de Ran is part of a Jura chain that extends in a south-west-north-east direction from Mont Racine via the Vue des Alpes and Mont d'Amin to the Chasseral . The ridge is bounded in the southeast by the valley basin of the Val de Ruz , in the north by the pass crossing of the Vue des Alpes and in the west by the uppermost part of the Vallée des Ponts . To the southwest, the ridge continues at an average altitude of 1400 m to Mont Racine.
On the Tête-de-Ran chain there are extensive Jura high pastures with the mighty spruce trees , which either stand individually or in groups; steeper slopes are wooded. A wind power plant is planned on the heights of Tête de Ran.
The Tête de Ran is a hiking area and lookout point near the cities of Neuchâtel and La Chaux-de-Fonds . Alpine skiing can be practiced here in winter. There are several ski lifts on both the south-east and north-west slopes of the mountain. Around 100 m below the summit is the Hotel Tête de Ran, which can be easily reached by road from the Vue des Alpes.
geology
In structural geological terms, the Tête de Ran forms an anticline of the Jura folds . In the course of time, the vault, made of competent limestone from the younger Jurassic period , was attacked at weak points by erosion and removed. Streams have carved erosion valleys into the softer rock layers below, for example the Combe des Quignets at the west foot of the Tête de Ran.
The ridge of the Tête de Ran, which slopes relatively steeply towards the north, is the southern limb of the anticline today. At a distance of about one kilometer, the wooded northern limb ( Les Côtes ; up to 1300 m ) is characterized , parallel to the Tête de Ran through the Malm limestone cliffs Roche aux Cros .
