The Bergamasque Alps or Bergamo Alps (
Italian
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: ''Alpi Orobie'', sometimes translated into English as Orobic Alps) are a
mountain range
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in the
Italian
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Alps
The Alps () ; german: Alpen ; it, Alpi ; rm, Alps ; sl, Alpe . are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe, stretching approximately across seven Alpine countries (from west to east): France, Sw ...
. They are located in northern
Lombardy
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and named after the city
Bergamo
Bergamo (; lmo, Bèrghem ; from the proto- Germanic elements *''berg +*heim'', the "mountain home") is a city in the alpine Lombardy region of northern Italy, approximately northeast of Milan, and about from Switzerland, the alpine lakes Como ...
, south of the mountains. Within the
Eastern Alps
Eastern Alps is the name given to the eastern half of the Alps, usually defined as the area east of a line from Lake Constance and the Alpine Rhine valley up to the Splügen Pass at the Alpine divide and down the Liro River to Lake Como in the ...
, the
Alpine Club
The first alpine club, the Alpine Club, based in the United Kingdom, was founded in London in 1857 as a gentlemen's club. It was once described as:
:"a club of English gentlemen devoted to mountaineering, first of all in the Alps, members of which ...
or AVE system places them within the
Western Limestone Alps, while the
SOIUSA Alps by SOIUSA.
SOIUSA (an acronym for - English: ''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps-ISMSA'') is a proposal for a new classification system of the Alps from the geographic and toponomastic point of view.
It was designe ...
system classifies them within the Southeastern Alps.
Peaks
The main peaks of the Bergamasque Alps are:
Passes
The main
mountain pass
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es of the Bergamasque Alps are:
Gallery
File:Lagobarbellino3.jpg, Barbellino Lake
File:Cascatedelserio.JPG, Serio Falls
File:Vista su Valbondione 01.JPG, Valbondione, in the Park of the Bergamo Orobic Alps
File:Going through Prà de'Lac.jpg, Prà de'Lac
File:Pizzo Redorta 02.JPG, Redorta
File:Recastello3.jpg, Recastello
File:Recastello4.jpg, Recastello
File:Pizzo Coca.jpg, Pizzo Coca
File:Bergamasque Alps in Summer.jpg, View of Punta Scais peak from Gromo
File:Alpi Orobie d'estate.jpg, Bergamo Alps in Mid-summer
Panorama
File:Orobie.jpg, Winter panorama
Maps
* Italian official cartography (''
Istituto Geografico Militare
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Overvie ...
'' - IGM); on-line version
www.pcn.minambiente.it
See also
*
Bergamasque Prealps
The Bergamasque Prealps () are a mountain range within the Alps. The range is located in Lombardy, in the north of Italy.
Geography
Administratively the range belongs to the Italian province of Bergamo and, to a lesser extent, to the provinces of ...
References
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Mountain ranges of the Alps
Central Alps
Mountain ranges of Italy
Mountains of Lombardy