Arâches-la-Frasse

Arâches-la-Frasse
Arâches-la-Frasse
Administration
Country	France
Region	Rhône-Alpes
Department	Haute-Savoie
Arrondissement	Arrondissement of Bonneville
Canton	Canton of Cluses
Mayor	Patricia Rosa (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	560–2,466 m (1,840–8,091 ft)
Land area1	37.69 km2 (14.55 sq mi)
Population2	1,680  (1999)
- Density	45 /km2 (120 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	74014/ 74300
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 46°02′39″N 6°37′56″E / 46.0441666667°N 6.63222222222°E / 46.0441666667; 6.63222222222

Arâches-la-Frasse is commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.

Situated in the northern French Alps, the commune sits on a large sunny plateau overlooking the Arve Valley southeast of the town of Cluses.

It is part of Cluses canton. The main villages in the commune are Arâches, Les Carroz, and La Frasse.

Les Carroz

Until the 1930s the village of Les Carroz was a simple farming hamlet with only a few houses. It is now developing into the nearest large ski resort to Geneva. By 1981 Les Carroz had been linked to the nearby ski villages of Samoëns, Morillon and Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval, and the resort of Flaine, developed in the 1960s. The Grand-Massif ski area had been born.

See also

• Communes of the Haute-Savoie department

References

• INSEE

External links

• Ski area website: http://www.grand-massif.co.uk/
• Les Carroz webcam: http://www.grandmassif.co.uk