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Montée Port de la Besse Salvetat-Peyrales D905

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D 905, La Salvetat-Peyralès, Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, Occitania, Metropolitan France, 12440, France
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Climb Profile

Altitude builds left to right while colour shows gradient severity for each part of Montée Port de la Besse Salvetat-Peyrales D905.

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Climb Stats

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Climb categoryCategory 3
Distance8.55 km / 5.31 miles
Elevation gain288 m / 945 ft
Average gradient3.4%
Maximum gradient9.4%
Elevation high456.6 m / 1,498 ft
Elevation low167.4 m / 549 ft
Climb difficulty score28,825.3

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Climb Rank

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🗺

This climb ranks 125,443rd out of 2,710,652 worldwide cycling climbs.

🧮

Ranked as the 18,777th most difficult cycling climb of all 342,105 climbs in France.

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Places 3,018th out of 45,333 cycling climbs in Occitania.

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Ranks 280th out of 3,376 cycling climbs in Aveyron.

🥉

This is the third most difficult cycling climb in La Salvetat-Peyralès.

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