Monte Vettore

Monte Vettore
Monte Vettore
	Monte Vettore viewed from the Marche
Highest point
Elevation	2,476 m (8,123 ft)
Prominence	1463
Isolation	41.56 km (25.82 mi)
Coordinates	42°49′N 13°16′E / 42.817°N 13.267°E
Geography
	Monte Vettore Location in Italy
Location	Marche, Italy
Parent range	Apennines
Climbing
Easiest route	Hiking

Monte Vettore (Italian: Victor; "victorious") is a mountain on the border between Umbria and the Marche, in Central Italy.

It is the highest mountain in the Marche region and in the province of Ascoli Piceno.

Geography[change | change source]

The mountain is part of the Sibillini Mountains (Italian: Monti Sibillini), a mountain group in Italy, part of the central Apennines between eastern Umbria and the Marche. It is in the "Sibillini Mountains National Park" (Italian: Parco Nazionale dei Monti Sibillini).

Below the peak, in a small enclosed U-shaped valley is one lake called the Lago di Pilato, at an altitude of 1,940 m (6,365 ft). Even if it is a small lake (500 m (1,640 ft) in diameter), it is important for biologists; a fresh water shrimp, Chirocephalus marchesonii, is endemic to this lake.

Today climbers reach it from the Umbrian side from Norcia, a town and comune in the province of Perugia (Italy) in southeastern Umbria or, on the Marche side, from Ascoli Piceno.