Comunità montana Grand Combin

The Comunità montana Grand Combin (" Grand Combin mountain community", in French Communauté de montagne Grand-Combin) is an association of 11 comuni in the Italian region of Valle d'Aosta.

The Comunità is named after the Grand Combin mountain, one of the highest mountains in the Alps. Even if the mountain is completely in Switzerland, it can be seen from the two main valleys that are part 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 northern part of Valle d'Aosta, close to Switzerland. The comuni are in two small mountain valleys: Valle del Gran San Bernardo () and Valpelline. There is another smaller valley where is the Bionaz comuni. These three valleys form the larger system of side valleys of the Dora Baltea river.

The main rivers in the Comunità are:
 Buthier, that flows through the Valpelline valley and is  long. It joins the Dora Baltea in Aosta as a left tributary.
 Artanavaz, that flows through the Gran San Bernardo valley, is  long and is a right tributary of the Buthier.

The Comunità montana Grand Combin has a total area of about  and a population of 5,825; its population density is of  inhabitants/km2.

The headquarters of the mountain community are in Gignod.

The Comunità includes the following comuni:

   Comuni  Population(2013)  Area(km²)  Density(Inh./km²) Gran San Bernado valley 1  Allein 244    8.02     2  Etroubles 509    39.16     3  Gignod 1,719    25.96     4  Saint-Oyen 216    9.40     5  Saint-Rhémy-en-Bosses 350    65.28     Valpelline valley 6  Bionaz 233    142.82     7  Doues 495    16.48     8  Ollomont 158    53.59     9  Oyace 217    30.62     10  Roisan 1,029    14.67     11  Valpelline 655    31.47    

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 Grand Combin 

Category:Italian mountain communities