Pizzo Coca

Pizzo Coca
Pizzo Coca
Highest point
Elevation3,050 m (10,010 ft)
Prominence1,878 m (6,161 ft)
Parent peakMont Blanc
ListingAlpine mountains above 3000 m
Coordinates46°4′7″N 10°0′42″E / 46.06861°N 10.01167°E / 46.06861; 10.01167
Naming
Native nameol Coca (Lombard)
Geography
Pizzo Coca is located in Alps
Pizzo Coca
Pizzo Coca
Location in the Alps
LocationLombardy, Italy
Parent rangeBergamo Alps

Pizzo Coca (Lombard: ol Coca) is a mountain that straddles the Val Seriana and the Valtellina in Lombardy, Italy. It is the highest peak in the Bergamo Alps (also called the Orobie Alps).[1][2] Its height is 3,050 metres[1][3] with a prominence height of 1,878 metres[3] and a saddle of 1,172 metres.[3] A post-glacial valley exists near a point called Ometto in sassi (literally "little man in rock") at 2,400 meters.[4][5]

  1. ^ a b "Pizzo di Coca". Peakware.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  2. ^ "Pizzo di Coca-Punta Scaiss-Pizzo Redorta". summitpost.org. 2006. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
  3. ^ a b c Petter Bjørstad; Jonathan de Ferranti; Eberhard Jurgalski; Vasja Kavcic; Aaron Maizlish (2004). "Europe Ultra-Prominences". peaklist.org. Retrieved 2010-05-11.
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