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The word is taken from French , where it is used to refer to a large mountain mass or compact group of connected mountains forming an independent portion of a range. One of the most notable Europe an examples of a massif is the Massif Central of the Auvergne region of France .


In Mountaineering and Climbing literature, a massif is frequently used to denote the main mass of an individual mountain.