La Chapelle-en-Valgaudémar is a village in the Hautes-Alpes, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, 45 km north-east of Gap.
The communal territory is very vast (100 km²), and falls for a large part of the high mountain, ranging from 1022 m to 3667 m altitude. The town was born in 1963 from the merger of Clemence-Ambel and Guillaume-Peyrouse, whose very names symbolize the history of this valley, shared in the fifteenth century between the heirs of the lord of Ambel who reigned over these lands.
The town now covers the entire Upper Valgaudemar Valley, which crosses the Séveraise, and cuts the western Ecrins massif.
Strongly marked by the rural exodus, especially after floods in the early twentieth century that affected the cultivable land at the bottom of the valley, the village which has only one hundred inhabitants now lives mainly from tourism and dynamic impulses by the Ecrins National Park. However, there are still some farms dedicated to livestock and pastoralism.
Hikers and outdoor enthusiasts in an exceptional natural setting will find in La Chapelle-en-Valgaudémar a potential to satisfy them fully, summer and winter.
