Editing Adula Alps (section)

{{Short description|Mountain range in Switzerland and Italy}}
{{Infobox mountain
 | name              = Adula Alps
 | native_name       = {{plainlist|
* {{langx|de|Adula-Alpen}}
* {{langx|it|Alpi dell'Adula}}
}}
 | photo             = Val Medel Medelsergletscher 4.jpg
 | photo_caption     = Some peaks: [[Piz Medel]] (left, 3,210 m), Piz Uffiern (3,151 m), Piz dalla Siala (3,023 m), Piz a Spescha (3,109 m)
 | state             = Cantons of [[Ticino]], [[Grisons|Graubünden]], and [[Canton of Uri|Uri]], [[Switzerland]]<br />
[[Province of Sondrio]] in [[Lombardy]], [[Italy]]
 | borders_on        = {{hlist|[[Rhaetian Alps]]|[[Bernese Alps]]|[[Glarus Alps]]}}
 | parent            = [[Lepontine Alps]]
 | orogeny           = [[Alpine orogeny|Alpine]]
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 | area_km2          = 
 | highest           = [[Rheinwaldhorn]]
 | elevation         = {{convert|3402|m|ft|abbr=off}}
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 | range_coordinates = 
{{coord|47.49361|N|9.04|E|region:CH_type:mountain_scale:300000|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
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 | map_caption       = Location of the Adula Alps 
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The '''Adula Alps''', also known as the '''West Graubünden''' and '''Misox Alps''', are a western Alpine mountain group, the part of the [[Lepontine Alps]] from the [[Lukmanier Pass|Lukmanier]] and [[St Gotthard Pass]]es to the [[Splügen Pass]].

[[File:Karte Adula-Alpen.png|thumb|The Swiss side of the Adula Alps]]
They lie mostly in Switzerland, in the Cantons of [[Ticino]], [[Grisons|Graubünden]], and [[Canton of Uri|Uri]], and partly in Italy, in the [[province of Sondrio]] in [[Lombardy]], stretching south to [[Lake Como]]. They form subsection 10B of the [[Alps]], according to the ''[[Partizione delle Alpi]]'', and subsection 10 III, according to the unified [[Orography|orographic]] classification of the Alps by [[:it:Sergio Marazzi|Sergio Marazzi]] ([[SOIUSA]]).

A string of mountains of the Adula stand on the international border between Switzerland and Italy, including [[Pizzo Tambò]], 
[[Piz di Pian]], [[Cima de Pian Guarnei]] (Pizzo Quadro), [[Cime di Val Loga]], Piz Tamborello, [[Piz della Forcola]], Pizzaccio, and [[Cima dello Stagn]], while [[Pizzo Ferré]] is near the border on the Italian side.

The [[mountain guide]]s of the [[Swiss Alpine Club]] do not lead climbers in groups for the Adula Alps, but attach parts of them to other sections.<ref>"Bündner Alpen, Bd. 2, Vom Lukmanier zum Domleschg by Manfred Hunziker", outline at hikr.org/books, accessed 3 October 2023 (in German)</ref>

[[File:Gotthardpass 2008.jpg|thumb|Looking west from the Gotthard Pass into the Adula Alps]]
The highest peak is the [[Rheinwaldhorn]] ({{convert|3402|m|ft|abbr=off|disp=semicolon}}), which in Italian is called the Adula, giving the range its name.<ref>Kev Reynolds, ''The Swiss Alps'' (2014), [https://books.google.com/books?id=EiyvAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT286 p. 286]</ref>

The main valleys are [[Val Malvaglia]], which drains into the lower [[Blenio Valley]], and three others draining south out of the Adula Alps, which are, from west to east, [[Val Calanca]], [[Valle Mesolcina]], and [[Valle Spluga]] (or San Giacomo).<ref>Kev Reynolds, ''Walking in the Alps: A comprehensive guide'' (2011), [https://books.google.com/books?id=uqxQTuz9I_4C&pg=PA222 p. 222]
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The creation of an Adula National Park was planned by Switzerland for sixteen years, from 2000. It would have become only the second in the country, after the [[Swiss National Park]], but in November 2016 the inhabitants voted against it.<ref>Franca Siegfried, [https://www.horizons-mag.ch/2019/09/05/poor-communication-torpedoes-a-second-national-park/ "Poor communication torpedoes a second national park"], ''[[Horizons (magazine)|Horizons]]'', 05/09/2019, accessed 2 October 2023</ref><ref>Annina Helena Michel, André Bruggmann, "Conflicting Discourses: Understanding the Rejection of a Swiss National Park Project Using Data Analysis Triangulation" in ''Mountain Research and Development'' 39(1) (June 2019), [https://doi.org/10.1659/MRD-JOURNAL-D-18-00081.1 R24-R36]</ref>