Gran Paradiso

[grahn pah-rah-dee-zaw]

noun

1. the highest peak in the Graian Alps, in N Italy. 13,324 feet (4,061 meters).

Gran Paradiso

/ ɡram paraˈdiːzo /

noun

1. a mountain in NW Italy, in NW Piedmont: the highest peak of the Graian Alps. Height: 4061 m (13 323 ft)

Example Sentences

Study leader Belletti, who is now at the French National Center for Scientific Research in Lyon, France, was part of a four-person team surveying the upper part of the Orco River, which originates inside the Gran Paradiso National Park high in the Italian Alps.

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It was only thanks to the conservation efforts in Italy's Gran Paradiso National Park, in the Aosta Valley, that the Alpine ibex survived at all after centuries of hunting.

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Alpine ibex males fight for hierarchy in Italy's Gran Paradiso National Park.

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A stoat captures one of its favorite prey, a vole, in Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy.

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A stoat captures one of its favorite prey, a vole, in Gran Paradiso National Park, Italy.

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