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Parc Naturel Régional Du Haut-Jura
Parc naturel régional du Haut-Jura (, ''Jura Mountains Regional Natural Park'') is a Regional natural parks of France, French regional natural park located in the southwest of the Jura Mountains, Jura Mountain Range in France, on the French-Swiss border. Park description The park was created February 10, 1986, and at that time comprised 37 towns. As of 2005, that count is now 113 towns, with a total population of 71,000 inhabitants. The park covers an area of 165,000 hectares across three Departments of France, French departments: Ain, Doubs and Jura (department), Jura. Entry towns (''ville-portes'') situated at the park boundaries are not actually part of the park themselves, but due to their geographic locations are important points of entry into the park. These towns are Divonne-les-Bains, Gex, Ain, Gex, Bellegarde-sur-Valserine, Champagnole, and the Community of Communes of Oyonnax (the latter two not having territory within the park's perimeter). History The park was ...
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Crêt De La Neige
The Crêt de la Neige (, "Snow Ridge") is the highest peak in the Jura Mountains and the department of Ain in France. Its elevation is 1720 m above sea level (reported as 1718 m before 2003). Its prominence is 1266 m. It is located in the commune of Thoiry. In 2024, a team of researchers locates the actual highest peak in a protected area and measures its elevation at 1720.83 m, while they found the geodetic marker at Crêt de la Neige at 1718.06 m elevation.Hetényi G., Chagros A.-M., Lemke K., Maharaj A., Baron L. (2024). Détermination du point culminant du massif du Jura. Mémoires de Géologie (Lausanne), n° 51, 6 pp/ref> Image:Cret De Neige Geneva.jpg, Looking towards Geneva Geneva ( , ; ) ; ; . is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland and the most populous in French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the ca ... from the summit Image:CrêtdeLaNei ...
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Cultural Heritage
Cultural heritage is the heritage of tangible and intangible heritage assets of a group or society that is inherited from past generations. Not all heritages of past generations are "heritage"; rather, heritage is a product of selection by society. Cultural heritage includes cultural property, tangible culture (such as buildings, monuments, landscapes, archive materials, books, works of art, and artifacts), intangible heritage, intangible culture (such as folklore, traditions, language, and knowledge), and natural heritage (including culturally significant landscapes, and biodiversity).Ann Marie Sullivan, Cultural Heritage & New Media: A Future for the Past, 15 J. MARSHALL REV. INTELL. PROP. L. 604 (2016) https://repository.jmls.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1392&context=ripl The term is often used in connection with issues relating to the protection of Indigenous intellectual property. The deliberate action of keeping cultural heritage from the present for the future is known ...
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Pougny, Ain
Pougny () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. It lies near the border with Switzerland and is the first French village to be crossed by the Rhône, and a hydro-electric station constructed in 1926 which it shares with the Swiss village of Chancy is named after it. Population Transportation The commune has a railway station, , on the Lyon–Geneva line. It has regular service to and . See also *Communes of the Ain department The following is a list of the 391 communes of the Ain department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Ain Ain com ...
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Péron, Ain
Péron () is a Communes of France, commune in the Ain Departments of France, department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Ain department References External links Péron official website
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Léaz
Léaz (; ) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. In addition to the main village, the commune has three hamlets: Grésin, Lavoux and Longeray. Population See also *Communes of the Ain department The following is a list of the 391 communes of the Ain department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Ain Ain communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Ain-geo-stub ...
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Farges
Farges () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Ain department The following is a list of the 391 communes of the Ain department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Ain Ain communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Ain-geo-stub ...
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Confort
Confort () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Ain department The following is a list of the 391 communes of the Ain department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Ain Ain communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Ain-geo-stub ...
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Collonges, Ain
Collonges (; ) is a commune in the Ain department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in Eastern France. Collonges is located on the border with the Haute-Savoie department, just northeast of Fort l'Écluse in Léaz, Ain. It is also situated 20 km (12.4 mi) southwest of Geneva, Switzerland. Inheritance museums and monuments: Fort l'Ecluse


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Communes of the Ain department The following is a list of the 391 communes of the Ain department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):
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Chézery-Forens
Chézery-Forens is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe. Overseas France, Its overseas regions and territories include French Guiana in South America, Saint Pierre and Miquelon in the Atlantic Ocean#North Atlan .... The commune of Chézery-Forens was created in 1962 from the union of the villages of Chézery and Forens. Population See also * Communes of the Ain department References Communes of Ain Ain communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Ain-geo-stub ...
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Canton Of Collonges
The canton of Collonges is a former administrative division in eastern France. It was disbanded following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. It had 11,647 inhabitants (2012).Populations légales 2012: 01 Ain
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Saint-Germain-de-Joux
Saint-Germain-de-Joux () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Ain department The following is a list of the 391 communes of the Ain department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Ain Ain communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Ain-geo-stub ...
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Montanges
Montanges () is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Ain department The following is a list of the 391 communes of the Ain department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2025):Communes of Ain Ain communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Ain-geo-stub ...
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