Comunità montana Grand Paradis

The Comunità montana Grand Paradis ("Grand Paradis mountain community", in French Communauté de montagne Grand-Paradis) is an association of 13 comuni in the Italian region of Valle d'Aosta.

The Comunità is named after the Gran Paradiso mountain, a mountain in the Graian Alps between the Valle d'Aosta and Piedmont regions of north-west Italy. The Gran Paradiso mountain can be seen from the comuni of the Comunità.

Purpose
Its main purpose is to promote the development of the valleys in the preservation of their cultural and environmental heritage. The Comunità also helps with technical assistance to all the comuni of the region.

The main activities have been:
 protection of alpine pastures (or Alpine tundra)
 development of tourism

Geography
This Comunità is in the central part of Valle d'Aosta, to the west and south of Aosta, the capital city of the region. The comuni are in the central valley of the region and in other small lateral valleys: Val di Cogne, Valsavarenche, Val di Rhêmes and Valgrisenche.

The main river in the Comunità is the Dora Baltea that flows through the Comunità from east to west.

The Comunità montana Grand Paradis has a total area of about  and a population of 15,674; its population density is of  inhabitants/km2.

The headquarters of the mountain community are in Villeneuve.

The Comunità includes the following comuni:

   ''Comuni  Population(2013)  Area(km²)  Density(Inh./km²) 1  Arvier 899    33.36     2  Avise 325    52.66     3  Aymavilles 2,066    53.41     4  Cogne 1,443    212.85     5  Introd 640    19.69     6  Rhêmes-Notre-Dame 107    86.72     7  Rhêmes-Saint-Georges 199    36.78     8  Saint-Nicolas 315    15.46     9  Saint-Pierre 3,111    26.25     10  Sarre 4,925    28.10     11  Valgrisenche 198    113.26     12  Valsavarenche 179    139.05     13  Villeneuve, Aosta Valley 1,267    8.88    

References

Related pages
 Valle d'Aosta

Other websites
 The National Union of Mountain Towns and Communities - UNCEM 
 Comuniverso: le 211 Comunità montane  
 Guida Rurale della Valle d'Aosta. Comunità Montana Comunità montana Grand Combin 

Category:Italian mountain communities