Bric delle Camere

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Bric delle Camere
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Highest point
Elevation 1,016 m (3,333 ft) [1]
Prominence 219 m (719 ft)  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Coordinates 44°38′21″N9°01′52″E / 44.63917°N 9.03111°E / 44.63917; 9.03111
Geography
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Bric delle Camere
Location in Italy
Location Liguria, Italy
Parent range Ligurian Apennines

Bric delle Camere is a mountain in northern Italy, part of the Ligurian Apennines. It is located in the provinces of Genoa and Alessandria. It lies at an altitude of 1016 metres.

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Geography

The mountain from Caprieto Bric delle Camere vista da Caprieto.png
The mountain from Caprieto

The Bric delle Camere is located on the administrative border between the Metropolitan City of Genoa (Liguria) and the Province of Alessandria (Piemonte). Its summit is the tripoint where three valleys meet: Val Vobbia, Valle Spinti and Val Borbera. It's the highest summit of the area [2] and is the spring of the Spinti. [3]

Access to the summit

Autumn view from Bric delle Camere towards the Po plain Bric delle Camere panorama autunnale verso nord.png
Autumn view from Bric delle Camere towards the Po plain

The summit of Bric delle Camere is crossed by the waymarked foothpath nr. 200, which belongs to the '"Anello Bormida-Spinti" ("Bormida-Spinti ring"), a trekking itinerary of the hiking network of Regione Piemonte. [4] It also can be accessed from Pertuso, with a walk which requires some hiking experience. [2]

Conservation

The Ligurian side of the mountain since 1989 is included in the Parco naturale regionale dell'Antola. [1] On its Piedmontese slopes has been reported a population of Scilla italica , a plant of the lily family also known as Hyacinthoides italica and locally rather uncommon. [5] Also the hyssop grows on the mountain. [6]

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References

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  1. 1 2 Istituto Geografico Centrale - Carta dei sentieri 1:50.000 n. 16 Genova - Varazze -Ovada
  2. 1 2 Salvo, Marco; Canossini, Daniele (2005). Appennino ligure e tosco-emiliano. Guida dei Monti d'Italia (in Italian). CAI - Touring. p. 130. ISBN   9788836527755.
  3. Pacini, Renzo (1967). La pesca (in Italian). Sansoni. p. 373. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
  4. "Anello Bormida-Spinti tappa 10 (Costa Salata Mongiardino - Borassi )" (in Italian). Provincia di Alessandria. Archived from the original on 2021-05-13. Retrieved 2019-12-06.
  5. Carrega, Mario; Silla, Domenico (1996). "Ricerche floristiche nel Novese e nel Tortonese (provincia di Alessandria Piemonte sud orientale)" (PDF). Rivista piemontese di storia naturale (in Italian) (17): 77–149. Retrieved 2019-12-07.
  6. AA.VV. (1996). Informatore botanico italiano (in Italian). Vol. 28–29. Società botanica italiana. p. 101. Retrieved 2019-12-07.