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unusual facts about Hautes Alpes



Aurore MB 02 Souricette

On Sunday, 23 December 2007, the Electravia team and the association APAME first flew its Souricette electric-powered open-cockpit airplane at Aspres sur Buech airfield, Hautes Alpes, France.

Magdeleine-Marie Desgarcins

Magdeleine-Marie Desgarcins (1769 at Mont-Dauphin (Hautes Alpes) – 27 October 1797 in Paris) was a French actress.


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Cenomanian

An official reference profile for the base of the Cenomanian (a GSSP) is located in an outcrop at the western flank of Mont Risou, near the village of Rosans in the French Alps (département Hautes-Alpes, coordinates: 44°23'33"N, 5°30'43"E).

Chris Sharma

In July 2001, Sharma completed the extension of the established route Biographie in Ceüse, located in the Hautes-Alpes Department of France and renamed it Realization, ignoring the French tradition that equippers and not climbers name routes.

Et exspecto resurrectionem mortuorum

Messiaen was inspired by the countryside which surrounded him as he worked on the composition - the Hautes-Alpes with their great mountains - but also the imposing images of Gothic and Romanesque churches, and the ancient monuments of Mexico and Ancient Egypt.

Isère

It comes as the third largest ski & winter destination of France after Savoie (Tignes, the 3 Valleys...) and Haute-Savoie (Chamonix, Morzine...) and before Hautes-Alpes (Serre-Chevalier, Montgenèvre, etc.) It also hosts Coupe Icare, an annual festival of free flight, such as paragliding and hang-gliding, held at the world-renowned paragliding site at Lumbin.

La Fare

La Fare-en-Champsaur, a commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France

Laus

Saint-Étienne-le-Laus, an administrative division in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France

Neffe

Neffes, commune in the Hautes-Alpes department in southeastern France

Potentilla delphinensis

It is endemic to France, where it is limited to the southern French Alps (Savoie et Dauphiné: Bauges; Isère; Hautes-Alpes, Col du Lautaret).

Rocher Rond

Rocher Rond lies in the foothills of the Alps, straddling the communes of Lus-la-Croix-Haute (in the department of Drôme) and Agnières-en-Dévoluy (in the department of Hautes-Alpes).