SOIUSA
SOIUSA an acronym for Suddivisione Orografica Internazionale Unificata del Sistema Alpino (English: International Standardized Mountain Subdivision of the Alps-ISMSA)[1] an explicit proposal for normalizing and standardizing different national classification systems from an international perspective, designed by Sergio Marazzi, Italian researcher and author of the Orographic Atlas of the Alps SOIUSA in collaboration and patronage[2] with the Italian Alpine Club and numerous collaborators.[3]
History
The SOIUSA is a modern interpretation of the complex terrain of the Alps and an innovative proposal for an update to overcome the traditional Partition of the Alps (Partizione delle Alpi) introduced in Italy in 1926, now obsolete, and needs an appropriate revision in accordance with the present-day geographic literature in Europe.[says who?]
Structure
The SOIUSA introduces the bipartition of the Alpine System (Western Alps and Eastern Alps) replacing the old tripartite division (Western Alps, Central Alps and Eastern Alps) by a multilevel pyramidal hierarchy according to identical scales and rules.
Mountain groups higher level: Fractionated with morphological and altimetric benchmark taking into account the historical and geographical regions in the Alps.
- two main parts : (PT) (it:parti)
- 5 major sectors (SR) (it:settorii)
- The occidental part is divided into two areas from south to north and then north-east: South Western Alps and North Western Alps
- Sections 36 (SZ) (it:sezioni)
- 132 subsections (STS) (it:sottosezioni)
Mountain groups higher level: Divided with a benchmark mountaineering.
- 333 supergroups (SPG) (it:supergruppi)
- 870 groups (GR) (it:gruppi)
- 1625 subgroups (STG) (it:sottogruppi)
(With some relative sectors (SR) intermediate to groups above)
Western Alps
From the line Savona - Bocchetta di Altare - Montezemolo - Mondovì to the line Rhine - Splügen Pass - Como lake - Lecco lake
South-western Alps
North-western Alps
Eastern Alps
From the line Rhine - Splügen Pass - Como lake - Lecco lake to the line Vienna-Sopron-Köszeg-Graz-Maribor and Godovič Pass
Central-eastern Alps
North-eastern Alps
- 21. North Tyrol Limestone Alps
- 22. Bavarian Alps
- 23. Tyrol Schistose Alps
- 24. Northern Salzburg Alps
- 25. Salzkammergut and Upper Austria Alps
- 26. Northern Styrian Alps
- 27. Northern Lower Austria Alps
South-eastern Alps
See also
References
- Grimm, Peter; Mattmüller, Claus R; Marazzi, Sergio; Zahn, Paul; Jurgalski, Eberhard;DAV OEAV Die Gebirgsgruppen der Alpen:Ansichten, Systematiken und Methoden zur Einteilung der Alpen. Die orographischen einteilungen der Alpen und die "IVOEA" page 69-96 (German/English) München 2004.
- Atlante orografico del monte Bianco / Sergio Marazzi ; fotografie di Davide Camisasca. - Ivrea : Priuli & Verlucca, ©1991.:
- Sergio Marazzi (2005), Atlante Orografico delle Alpi. SOIUSA. Pavone Canavese (TO): Priuli & Verlucca editori. ISBN 978-88-8068-273-8 (Italian)
- ^ See international names at the Sergio Marazzi's Atlante orografico delle Alpi:SOIUSA page 55-International Vereinheitlichte Orographische Einteilung der Alpen (IVOEA) (German); Enotna Mednarodna Orografska Razdelitev Alp (EMORA) (Slovenian);Subdivision Orographique Internationale Unifiée du Système Alpin (French)
- ^ http://www.corverde.it/archivio06/atlanteorografico.html
- ^ * Prof. Josef Breu - Österreichisches Ost- und Südosteuropa Institut -Vienna;
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