The Couronne de Bréona, is a mountain of the

Pennine Alps The Pennine Alps (, , , ), sometimes referred to as the Valais Alps (which are just the Northern Swiss part of the Pennine Alps), are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps. They are located in Italy (the Aosta Valley and Piedmont) an ...

, located east of

Les Haudères Les Haudères is a village in the Swiss Alps, located in the canton of Valais. The village is situated in the central part of the canton, in the Val d'Hérens, south of Sion. It belongs to the municipality of Evolène. Les Haudères lies where t ...

in the canton of

Valais Valais ( , ; ), more formally, the Canton of Valais or Wallis, is one of the cantons of Switzerland, 26 cantons forming the Switzerland, Swiss Confederation. It is composed of thirteen districts and its capital and largest city is Sion, Switzer ...

. It lies north of the

Tsa de l'Ano The Tsa de l'Ano is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, located east of Les Haudères in the canton of Valais. It is separated by the ''Col de Mourti'' (3,259 m) from the ''Pointes de Mourti'' to the southeast, on the range between the valley ...

, on the range between the valleys of Hérens and Moiry. ''Bréona'' is the name of an extensive

alpine pasture Alpine transhumance is transhumance as practiced in the Alps, that is, a seasonal droving of grazing livestock between the valleys in winter and the high mountain pastures in summer (German language, German ' from the term for "seasonal mount ...

to the south-west of the peak, spanning elevations between some , making it one of the highest pastures in the Alps altogether. Ascending from La Forclaz, ''Mayens de Bréona'' is reached at , and the main buildings of ''Bréona'' alpage at . At , the path turns right to avoid a gravel field called ''Liapey d'Enfer'', and at reaches ''Remointse de Bréona'', the temporary and more elevated shelters of the alpage. The ''Bréona'' pasture stretches from here to and above, with a well structure indicated at . From here, the path ascends to ''Col de Bréona'' at , separating the ''Serra Neire'' to the southwest from the ''Couronne de Bréona'' to the southeast, and via ''Col du Tsaté'' () traversing to ''Pinte du Bandon'' () to the northwest. Beyond the main peak of ''Couronne de Bréona'' is a secondary summit, called ''Clocher de la Couronne'' at , separated by the ''Col de la Couronne'' () from '' Pointe de Moiry'' () to the south.

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Couronne de Bréona on Hikr
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