Alps

According to the dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy (RAE), Alps is a term that can be used in reference to a high-rise mountain. The concept, however, is usually written with an initial capital letter to refer specifically to a mountain range located on the European continent.

The Alps, in this framework, are a mountain range that extends for about 1,200 kilometers and goes through eight countries: Germany, Austria, Slovenia, France, Italy, Liechtenstein, Monaco Y Swiss. About fourteen million people live in this area.

Trace the line Limiting the Alps is not an easy task, at least not in all its areas. Although it does not cause any complication in the part where it borders the Po river basin (which extends considerably along northern Italy to the east and into the Adriatic Sea), the situation is very different at those points where which are found with hills or other mountainous regions.

Some mountain ranges bordering the Alps are the Massif Central, the Apennines, the Black Forest, the Jura, the Carpathians, the peaks of the Balkan Peninsula and the Böhmerwald. To draw the border between the Alps and the Apennines, the port called Brocchetta di Altare of the province of Savona, in the Italian region of Liguria, which is also known by the names Colle di Cadibona Y Brocchetta di Cadibona.

The Alps that were formed from the Massif Central because of the displacements of the tectonic plates and due to the volcanic activity they are easy to delimit, thanks to the presence of the Rhone river. As it travels upstream, the river turns east when it is close to the French city of Lyon, and then serves to clearly divide the Jura and the Alps until it empties into Lake Geneva.

From that point and up to Lake Neuchâtel, the largest in the western region of Switzerland, you can see a great plain that extends leaving the Alps to the southeast and the Jura to the northwest. Beyond the lake and until it joins the Rhine, the limit is formed by the Aare river, which flows in northern Switzerland, from the center and north.

While the Rhine and Lake Constance (surrounded by Switzerland, Austria and Germany) make it easier to trace the boundary between the Alps and the Black Forest, the task becomes less straightforward in southern Germany, since there the land begins to rise fluidly to the beginning of the mountains, in what is known as the Swabian Alps.

The peak highest in the Alps is the Mont Blanc, located on the border between France and Italy: this mountain reaches the 4,810 meters high. In this chain of mountains there are more than a hundred peaks that exceed the 4,000 meters above sea level and that constitute a great challenge for mountaineers.

In the Alps there are also multiple glaciers, most of which are distributed in Austrian, French, Italian and Swiss territories. The glacier Aletsch, located in the Swiss canton of Valais, is the oldest surface, more than 120 square kilometers.

Goats, wild boars, roe deer, hares, deer and golden eagles coexist in the Alps, surrounded by pines, oaks and beech trees. It should be noted that the natural beauties make the Alps a great tourist attraction.

The mountaineering It is one of the most attractive activities in the Alps. This is the name of the mountaineering that takes place in these mountains and that implies the challenge of trying to reach some summit cord.