page_title: Ambel, Isère
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Ambel, Isère / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Ambel (à gauche au second plan) face à la plaine de Pellafol (à droite)&#160;; entre eux la branche ouest du lac du Sautet.
context_page_description: Ambel is a French commune in the Isère department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southeastern France.
  The inhabitants of the commune are known as Ambellons or Ambellonnes
context_section_description: Ambel is located at the southern end of the department of Isère, in the Beaumont area, on a small plateau extending north of Faraud Mountain on the eastern edge of the Dévoluy massif between the Drac river which forms the north-eastern border and the Souloise river which forms the western border. The commune is some 20 km south-west of La Mure and some 50 km north by north-east of Veynes although is not directly accessible from the places. Access to the commune is by minor road D217 which branches from national route N85 at Le Motty to the east of the commune. The D217 goes west to the village then turn south to Monestier-d'Ambel.
  Ambel overlooks Lake Sautet which is formed by a dam located 1 kilometre north of the village, and dams the two rivers on two sides of the commune. The Plateau of Ambel is one of the residues of an ancient alluvial plain created by a glacial barrier which was at the location of the current dam and subsequently cut through by the Drac and Souloise.Corps to the east and Pellafol to the west are located on the lateral edges of the plain at the same altitude. This gives the local landscape a distinctive aspect with the three villages facing and partially embedded inside the gorge.
caption: Ambel, next to the Souloise.
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