Brescia and Garda Prealps
The Brescia and Garda Prealps are a mountain range in the southern part of the Alps. They are located mainly in Lombardy but also in Trentino Alto Adige and in Veneto, in the northern part of Italy.Geography
Administratively the range is divided between the Italian provinces of Trento, Verona and Brescia.
The easternmost slopes of the mountains are drained by the Adige, the central ande western part of the range by Chiese, Sarca, Oglio and other minor rivers and streams, all of them tributaries of the Po.SOIUSA classification
According to SOIUSA the mountain range is an Alpine section, classified in the following way:
Brescia and Garda Prealps' borders are :
The Brescia and Garda Prealps are subdivided into two subsections:
- Brescia Prealps - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.I
- Garda Prealps - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.II,
which are separated by the Valle Sabbia.
These subsections are further divided in supergroups:
- Brescia Prealps:
- * supergroup Catena Setteventi-Muffetto-Guglielmo - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.I-A,
- * supergroup Catena Dosso Alto-Monte Palo - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.I-B;
- Garda Prealps:
- * supergroup Prealpi Giudicarie - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.II-A,
- * supergroup Prealpi Gardesane Sud-occidentali - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.II-B,
- * supergroup Prealpi Gardesane Orientali - SOIUSA code:II/C-30.II-C.
Summits
The chief summits of the range are:
| Name | metres | feet |
| Monte Cadria | 2,254 | 7,393 |
| Monte Baldo | 2,218 | 7,275 |
| Monte Colombine | 2,215 | 7,265 |
| Monte Bondone | 2,160 | 7,084 |
| Monte Tofino | 2,151 | 7,057 |
| Monte Altissimo | 2,127 | 6,976 |
| Dosso Alto | 2,065 | 6,773 |
| Monte Muffetto | 2,060 | 6,756 |
| Monte Caplone | 1,977 | 6,550 |
| Monte Tombea | 1,976 | 6,481 |
| Monte Tremalzo | 1,975 | 6,478 |
| Monte Guglielmo | 1,957 | 6,419 |
| Monte Pizzocolo | 1,582 | 5,189 |
| Monte Manos | 1,517 | 4,976 |
| Monte Stino | 1,466 | 4,808 |
| Monte Vesta | 1,400 | 4,592 |
| Corna Trentapassi | 1,248 | 4,094 |
Maps
