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Lac des Cordes

body of water

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ3215657 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lac des Cordes is a lake in Hautes-Alpes, France. At an elevation of 2,446 metres (8,025 ft), its surface area is 0.02 square kilometres (0.0077 sq mi). It is located close to the northern wall of the Pic de Rochebrune. []

The lake can be accessed by hiking, starting either from the hamlet of Bourgea (1,950 metres (6,400 ft)) or from the refuge of Fonts de Cervières (2,040 metres (6,690 ft).

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“Lac des Cordes” enters the record as body of water. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Cordes, body and water can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 71-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Cordes, body and water.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3215657. Authority coordinates are 44.845, 6.789. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lac des Cordes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.