Vaudois and Friborg Prealps (SOIUSA)

Freiburg Alps Vaudois and Friborg Prealps (SOIUSA)
Le Tarent from La Pare to the east.
Highest peak	Le Taranto ( 2547  m above sea level )
location	Cantons of Friborg , Bern , Vaud ; Switzerland
part of	Western alps
Classification according to	SOIUSA 14.I
Coordinates	577 558  /  136783 coordinates: 46 ° 23 '  N , 7 ° 9'  O ; CH1903:  577558  /  136783

The Vaudois and Friborg Prealps or Préalpes Vaudoises et Fribourgeoises is section 14.I and thus a summary of the Friborg Prealps and the Vaudois Prealps according to Sergio Marazzi's SOIUSA proposal for categorization, which is not internationally recognized . There it is part of the Swiss Prealps . They are located in western Switzerland in the cantons of Friborg , Bern and Vaud . The highest peak is Le Tarent ( 2547  m above sea level ) in Vaud . The Vanil Noir ( 2389  m above sea level ) is the highest point in the canton of Friborg.

Delimitation (according to SOIUSA)

See also : SOIUSA

Dent de Brenleire ( 2358  m above sea level , front right) and Vanil Noir ( 2389  m above sea level , rear).

They border:

• bounded in the north and west by the central plateau (from west to east) by Veveyse , Broye , Lac de la Gruyère , Sense
• in the southwest to the Chablais massif, the northeastern part of the Savoy Prealps separated by the Rhone Valley
• in the east to the Bernese Pre-Alps separated by Saane , Simme and Muscheren Sense
• bounded in the south by the Vaudois Alps by (west to east) the Gryonne Valley, Col de la Croix , Dar and Col du Pillon

Freiburg Alps

According to other subdivisions, the area is called the Friborg Alps , French Alpes Fribourgeoisrs , which borders the Emmental in the east, the Bernese Alps in the south and belongs to the Western Alps .

Highest peaks

• Le Taranto - 2548 m
• Gummfluh - 2458 m
• Vanil Noir - 2389 m
• Pic Chaussy - 2351 m
• Tour d'Aï - 2332 m
• Dent de Ruth - 2236 m
• Rochers de Naye - 2045 m
• Moléson - 2002 m
• Vanil des Artses - 1991 m
• Cape au Moine - 1941 m
• Dent de Jaman - 1875 m
• Monts Chevreuils - 1749 m
• La Berra - 1719 m

Web links

• Wikiloc: Route to Taranto

literature

• Sergio Marazzi: Atlante Orografico delle Alpi. SOIUSA . Pavone Canavese (TO), Priuli & Verlucca editori, 2005. ISBN 978-88-8068-273-8 (Italian)
• Sergio Marazzi, La “Suddivisione orografica internazionale unificata del Sistema Alpino” (SOIUSA) - the complete article with detailed illustrations (pdf; 1.53 MB) (Italian)

supporting documents

1. ↑ SwissTopo
2. ↑ Ernst Höhne: Knaurs Lexikon für Bergfreunde / The Alps between Matterhorn and Lake Constance . Droemer Knaur, Munich 1987, ISBN 3-426-26223-1 , p. 104 f .
3. ↑ Mountain album based on Johannes Führer in "Bergwelt" 1980, p. 38 ff.

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