Hautes-Alpes (Occitan: Auts Aups) is a department in southeastern France named after the Alps mountain range.
Alpes-Maritimes (Occitan: Aups Maritims) is a department in the extreme southeast corner of France.
The Alpes de Haute-Provence has 6000 km of paths for hikers, 6 large lakes and artifi cial lakes and 800 km of rivers and mountain streams for all different kinds of water sports.