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région: Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
département: 74, Haute-Savoie

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Vallorcine (in the past also spelled Vallorcines or Valorcine) is situated at an elevation of 1,9036nbsp;m in the département Haute-Savoie, at the border to Switzerland, about 64 km northeast of the departmental capital, Annecy, and about 165 km northeast of Lyon, the capital of the région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes. As of January 2021, the municipality has a population of 409.

Vallis Ursine was first mentioned in a written document in 1264. The place comes from the Latin words vallis (valley) and ursus (bear). The municipality changed from the canton of Saint-Gervais-les-Bains to the canton of Chamonix-Mont-Blanc in 1864 and became part of the canton of Le Mont-Blanc in 2015.

Depicted in the background are the Aiguilles Rouges ('Red Needles'), a crystalline mountainous massif of the French Prealps, opposite the Mont Blanc Massif. The colour of the iron rich gneiss (metamorphique) mountains gives the range its name. Its highest peak is the Aiguille du Belvédère at 2,965 metres.

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