The Aravis is a mountain range

Mountain range

A mountain range is a single, large mass consisting of a succession of mountains or narrowly spaced mountain ridges, with or without peaks, closely related in position, direction, formation, and age; a component part of a mountain system or of a mountain chain...

 in Savoie

Savoie

Savoie is a French department located in the Rhône-Alpes region in the French Alps.Together with the Haute-Savoie, Savoie is one of the two departments of the historic region of Savoy that was annexed by France on June 14, 1860, following the signature of the Treaty of Turin on March 24, 1860...

 and Haute-Savoie

Haute-Savoie

Haute-Savoie is a French department in the Rhône-Alpes region of eastern France. It borders both Switzerland and Italy. The capital is Annecy. To the north is Lake Geneva and Switzerland; to the south and southeast are the Mont Blanc and Aravis mountain ranges and the French entrance to the Mont...

, eastern France

France

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. It is part of the French Prealps

French Prealps

The French Prealps are a group of subalpine mountain ranges of medium elevation located immediately west of the French Alps. They roughly stretch from Lake Geneva southwest to the Isère and Drôme Rivers; east to a line running from Chamonix, to Albertville, to Grenoble, to Gap, to Barcelonette;...

, a lower chain of mountain ranges west of the main chain of the Alps

Alps

The Alps is one of the great mountain range systems of Europe, stretching from Austria and Slovenia in the east through Italy, Switzerland, Liechtenstein and Germany to France in the west....

. Its highest summit is the Pointe Percée

Pointe Percée

The Pointe Percée is the highest mountain in the Aravis range in Haute-Savoie. It rises to 2752 meters and has 1643 m of prominence, and thus is classified as an ultra prominent peak. Its first documented climb was by M. L. Maquelin of Geneva in 1865, though likely climbed much earlier....

, at 2752m. The orientation of the Aravis is north-south, and it stretches from Cluses

Cluses

Cluses is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.Citizens are known as Clusiens. The commune is situated in the Arve Valley, on the river which bears the same name...

 in the north, to Ugine

Ugine

Ugine is a commune in the Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.-External links:*...

 in the south. The Bornes massif, sometimes considered part of the Aravis, lies to its west. The Aravis is separated from the Chablais

Chablais

Chablais was a province of the Duchy of Savoy. Its capital was Thonon-les-Bains.This region is currently divided into three territories, the Chablais savoyard, the Chablais valaisan, and the Chablais vaudois, and is now split across two countries: France and Switzerland...

 mountains in the north-east by the Arve

Arve

The Arve river flows for approximately 100 km through France, in the département of Haute-Savoie, and in Switzerland...

 river valley, and from the Graian Alps

Graian Alps

The Graian Alps are a mountain range in the western part of the Alps. They are located in France , Italy , and Switzerland...

 in the south-east by the Arly

Arly

This article is about a river in France. For the national park in Africa, see Arli National ParkArly is a 35 km long river of France. It is a right tributary of the Isère River, which it joins in Albertville.-Towns crossed by the river:* Megève...

river valley.