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Ortler Ortler (; it, Ortles ) is, at above sea level, the highest mountain in the Eastern Alps outside the Bernina Range. It is the main peak of the Ortler Range. It is the highest point of the Southern Limestone Alps, of South Tyrol in Italy, of ...

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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, ...

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) are a mountain range in the southern part of the

Geography

Administratively the range belongs to the Italian regions of Trentino-Alto Adige and Lombardy.

SOIUSA classification

According to

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 desig ...

(''International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps'') the mountain range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way: * main part =

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 t ...

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Southern Limestone Alps The Southern Limestone Alps ( it, Alpi Sud-orientali, german: Südliche Kalkalpen), also called the Southern Calcareous Alps, are the ranges of the Eastern Alps south of the Central Eastern Alps mainly located in northern Italy and the adjacent ...

* section =Southern Rhaetian Alps * code = II/C-28

Subdivision

The range is subdivided into four subsections: *Alpi dell'Ortles -

SOIUSA code SOIUSA code is the code used in the International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps (ISMSA or SOIUSA), a proposal by Italian Alpinist, Sergio Marazzi, to re- categorize the mountains and mountain ranges of the Alps. The proposal has b ...

: II/C-28.I, *Alpi della Val di Non -

: II/C-28.II, * Alpi dell'Adamello e della Presanella -

: II/C-28.III; * Dolomiti di Brenta -

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Notable summits

Some notable summits of the Southern Rhaetian Alps are:

Notable passes

Some notable passes of the Southern Rhaetian Alps are: *

Croce Domini Pass The Croce Domini Pass ( it, Passo di Crocedomini) (el. 1892 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Alps in the region of Lombardy in Italy. It connects the Lago d'Idro in the southeast and the Lago d'Iseo in the southwest. The pass road has a maxim ...

Gavia Pass Gavia Pass ( it, Passo di Gavia) (el. 2621 m.) is a high mountain pass in the Italian Alps. It is the List of highest paved roads in the Alps, tenth highest paved road in the Alps. The pass lies in the Lombardy region and divides the pr ...

Mendelpass The Mendel Pass (german: Mendelpass or , it, Passo della Mendola, or ) is a 1,362 metre-high mountain pass A mountain pass is a navigable route through a mountain range or over a ridge. Since many of the world's mountain ranges have p ...

* Mortirolo Pass *

Stelvio Pass ''Giogo dello Stèlvio''german: Stilfser Joch , photo = The_Stelvio_pass.jpg , photo_caption = Some of the 48 hairpin turns near the top of the eastern ramp of the Stelvio Pass , photo_alt = , map = Alps , map_caption = Location of Stelvio Pass in ...

Tonale Pass Tonale Pass ( it, Passo del Tonale) (el. 1883 m./6178 ft.) is a high mountain pass in northern Italy across the Rhaetian Alps, between Lombardy and Trentino. It connects Valcamonica and Val di Sole. It is delimited by the Ortler ...

References

Maps

* Italian official cartography (''

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{{SOIUSA sections of the Alps Mountain ranges of the Alps Mountain ranges of Lombardy Landforms of Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol