Editing Adula Alps

{{Short description|Mountain range in Switzerland and Italy}}
{{Infobox mountain
 | name              = Adula Alps
 | native_name       = {{plainlist|
* {{langx|de|Adula-Alpen}}
* {{langx|it|Alpi dell'Adula}}
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 | photo             = Val Medel Medelsergletscher 4.jpg
 | photo_caption     = Some peaks: [[Piz Medel]] (left, 3,210 m), Piz Uffiern (3,151 m), Piz dalla Siala (3,023 m), Piz a Spescha (3,109 m)
 | state             = Cantons of [[Ticino]], [[Grisons|Graubünden]], and [[Canton of Uri|Uri]], [[Switzerland]]<br />
[[Province of Sondrio]] in [[Lombardy]], [[Italy]]
 | borders_on        = {{hlist|[[Rhaetian Alps]]|[[Bernese Alps]]|[[Glarus Alps]]}}
 | parent            = [[Lepontine Alps]]
 | orogeny           = [[Alpine orogeny|Alpine]]
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 | area_km2          = 
 | highest           = [[Rheinwaldhorn]]
 | elevation         = {{convert|3402|m|ft|abbr=off}}
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 | map_caption       = Location of the Adula Alps 
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The '''Adula Alps''', also known as the '''West Graubünden''' and '''Misox Alps''', are a western Alpine mountain group, the part of the [[Lepontine Alps]] from the [[Lukmanier Pass|Lukmanier]] and [[St Gotthard Pass]]es to the [[Splügen Pass]].

[[File:Karte Adula-Alpen.png|thumb|The Swiss side of the Adula Alps]]
They lie mostly in Switzerland, in the Cantons of [[Ticino]], [[Grisons|Graubünden]], and [[Canton of Uri|Uri]], and partly in Italy, in the [[province of Sondrio]] in [[Lombardy]], stretching south to [[Lake Como]]. They form subsection 10B of the [[Alps]], according to the ''[[Partizione delle Alpi]]'', and subsection 10 III, according to the unified [[Orography|orographic]] classification of the Alps by [[:it:Sergio Marazzi|Sergio Marazzi]] ([[SOIUSA]]).

A string of mountains of the Adula stand on the international border between Switzerland and Italy, including [[Pizzo Tambò]], 
[[Piz di Pian]], [[Cima de Pian Guarnei]] (Pizzo Quadro), [[Cime di Val Loga]], Piz Tamborello, [[Piz della Forcola]], Pizzaccio, and [[Cima dello Stagn]], while [[Pizzo Ferré]] is near the border on the Italian side.

The [[mountain guide]]s of the [[Swiss Alpine Club]] do not lead climbers in groups for the Adula Alps, but attach parts of them to other sections.<ref>"Bündner Alpen, Bd. 2, Vom Lukmanier zum Domleschg by Manfred Hunziker", outline at hikr.org/books, accessed 3 October 2023 (in German)</ref>

[[File:Gotthardpass 2008.jpg|thumb|Looking west from the Gotthard Pass into the Adula Alps]]
The highest peak is the [[Rheinwaldhorn]] ({{convert|3402|m|ft|abbr=off|disp=semicolon}}), which in Italian is called the Adula, giving the range its name.<ref>Kev Reynolds, ''The Swiss Alps'' (2014), [https://books.google.com/books?id=EiyvAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT286 p. 286]</ref>

The main valleys are [[Val Malvaglia]], which drains into the lower [[Blenio Valley]], and three others draining south out of the Adula Alps, which are, from west to east, [[Val Calanca]], [[Valle Mesolcina]], and [[Valle Spluga]] (or San Giacomo).<ref>Kev Reynolds, ''Walking in the Alps: A comprehensive guide'' (2011), [https://books.google.com/books?id=uqxQTuz9I_4C&pg=PA222 p. 222]
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The creation of an Adula National Park was planned by Switzerland for sixteen years, from 2000. It would have become only the second in the country, after the [[Swiss National Park]], but in November 2016 the inhabitants voted against it.<ref>Franca Siegfried, [https://www.horizons-mag.ch/2019/09/05/poor-communication-torpedoes-a-second-national-park/ "Poor communication torpedoes a second national park"], ''[[Horizons (magazine)|Horizons]]'', 05/09/2019, accessed 2 October 2023</ref><ref>Annina Helena Michel, André Bruggmann, "Conflicting Discourses: Understanding the Rejection of a Swiss National Park Project Using Data Analysis Triangulation" in ''Mountain Research and Development'' 39(1) (June 2019), [https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-18-00081.1 R24-R36]</ref>

==Towns and villages==
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;In Uri
*[[Andermatt]]

;In Graubünden
*[[Disentis]] or Mustér
*[[Trun, Switzerland|Trun]] or Truns
*[[Ilanz]]
*[[Bonaduz]]
*[[Thusis]]
*[[Andeer]]
*[[Splügen]] or Spluga
*[[Hinterrhein, Switzerland|Hinterrhein]]
*[[San Bernardino, Switzerland|San Bernardino]]
*[[Mesocco]]
*[[Obersaxen]]
*[[Rossa, Switzerland|Rossa]]
*[[Roveredo]]
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*[[Arbedo-Castione]]
*[[Vrin]] 
*[[Vals, Switzerland|Vals]]
*[[Thalkirch]]
*[[Safien]]

;In Ticino
*[[Osogna]]
*[[Biasca]]
*[[Malvaglia]]
*[[Olivone]]
*[[Lumino]]
;In Lombardy
*[[Livo, Lombardy|Livo]]

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==Peaks==
[[File:Länta.jpg|thumb|upright|The Rheinwaldhorn (left) seen from near [[Vals, Switzerland|Vals]]]]
[[File:Zervreila.jpg|thumb|The Guferhorn, or 
Zervreila, with [[Zervreilasee]] at its foot
]] 
The following peaks of the Adela Alps are sorted by height in [[metre]]s (m) above sea level, called ''Meter über Meer'' (m&nbsp;ü.&nbsp;M.) in Switzerland:

*[[Rheinwaldhorn]] (3,402 m)
*[[Güferhorn]] (3,379 m)
*[[Pizzo Tambò]] (3,279 m)
*[[Grauhorn]] (3,260 m)
*[[Läntahorn]] (3,237 m)
*[[Vogelberg]] (3,218 m)
*[[Piz Medel]] (3,210 m)
*[[Pizzo di Cassimoi]] (3,129 m)
*[[Scopi]] (3,190 m)
*[[Cima di Camadra]] (3,172 m)
*[[Cima Rossa]] (3,161 m)
*[[Piz di Pian]] (3,158 m)
*[[Zapporthorn]] (3,152 m)
*[[Piz Terri]] (3,149 m)
*[[Fanellhorn]] (3,124 m)
*[[Piz Scharboda]] (3,122 m)
*[[Pizzo Ferré]] (3,103 m)
*[[Bruschghorn]] (3,056 m)
*[[Furggeltihorn]] (3,043 m)
*[[Plattenberg]] (3,041 m)
*[[Alperschällihorn]] (3,036 m)
*[[Frunthorn]] (3,030 m)
*[[Piz Corbet]] (3,025 m)
*[[Cima de Pian Guarnei]] (3,015 m)
*[[Piz Uffiern (Tujetsch)]] (3,013 m)
*[[Cime di Val Loga]] (3,004 m)
*[[Piz Beverin]] (2,997 m)
*[[Piz de la Lumbreida]] (2,983 m)
*[[Teurihorn]] (2,973 m)
*[[Torent Alto]] (2,948 m)
*[[Piz Tomül]] (2,946 m)
*[[Einshorn]] (2,944 m)
*[[Zervreilahorn]] (2,898 m) 
*[[Pizzo Tamborello]] (2,858 m)
*[[Pizzo di Claro]] (2,727 m)
*[[Pizzo Paglia]] (2,593 m)
*[[Piz Titschal]] (2,550 m)
*[[Pizzo Cavregasco]] (2,535 m)
*[[Cima dello Stagn]] (2,380 m)
*[[Sosto]] (2,221 m)

==Lakes==
;In Switzerland 
*[[Sufnersee]], reservoir dating from 1962, surface area {{convert|0.94|km2|abbr=on}}<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080925181046/http://www.swissdams.ch/Dams/damForm/default_e.asp?ID=49 "Swiss Dams: Sufers"], Swiss Committee on Dams, accessed 3 October 2023</ref>
*[[Zervreilasee]], reservoir dating from 1957<ref>[https://www.kwz.ch/ueber-uns/geschichte/ "Geschichte"], kwz.ch, accessed 3 October 2023 (in German)</ref>
*[[Lago di Luzzone]], reservoir dating from 1963, surface area {{convert|1.27|km2|abbr=on}}<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20080925181801/http://www.swissdams.ch/Dams/damForm/default_e.asp?ID=3 "Swiss Dams: Luzzone"], Swiss Committee on Dams, 25/09/2008, accessed 3 October 2023</ref>
;In Italy
*[[Lake Como]], a [[glacial lake]] with an area of {{convert|146|km2|mi2|abbr=out}}.

==Mountain huts==
[[File:Adulahuette SAC.jpg|thumb|The ''Adulahuette'' of the Swiss Alpine Club]]
[[File:Capanna Quarnei.jpg|thumb|The ''Capanna Quarnei'' of the ''Società Alpinistica Bassa Blenio'']]
*Camona da Medel, 2524 m
*Capanna Adula of the UTOE, 2393 m
*Zapporthütte, at 2276 m on the Zapporthorn
*Capanna Scaletta, [[Blenio]], 2,205 m
*Capanna Scaradra, Blenio, 2,173 m
*Capanna Motterascio, [[Ghirone]], 2,172 m
*Camona da Terri, 2,170 m
*Capanna Quarnei, [[Malvaglia]], 2,107 m
*Adulahuette of the SAC, 2,012 m
*Länta-Hütte, at 2,090 m on the Läntahorn
*Medelserhütte, on the Piz Medel
*Capanna Buffalora, [[Rossa, Switzerland|Rossa]], 2,078 m
*Capanna di Cava, [[Biasca]], 2,066 m
*Rifugio Biasagn, Biasca, 2,023 m
*Capanna Brogoldone, [[Lumino]], 1,904 m
*Capanna Bovarina, [[Campo Blenio]], 1,870 m
*Capanna Como, at [[Livo, Lombardy]], 1,790 m
*Capanna Dötra, 1,748 m, on Sosto

==Notes==
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==References==
*[[W. A. B. Coolidge|William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge]], ''Climbers' guides : Adula Alps of the Lepontine Range'' (T. Fisher Unwin, 1893)
*[[John Ball (naturalist)|John Ball]], ''The Alpine Guide, Central Alps'' (London: 1866)
*Philip Lake, Howard Knox, W. A. B. Coolidge, [https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclopædia_Britannica/Alps "Alps"] in [[Hugh Chisholm]], ed., ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]'' 11th ed. (Cambridge University Press, 1911)
*Michael Anderson, ''Mittel Switzerland (Lepontine, Ticino and Adula Alps)'' (West Col Productions, 1974, {{ISBN|9780901516787}})

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