Gletsch
Sign in to savethumb|300px|Gletsch with the Furka (left) and Grimsel roads (right) Gletsch (; ) is a hamlet in the German-speaking half of the canton of Valais, located in the upper Rhone valley, called Obergoms ('Upper Goms'), , southeast below the Rhone Glacier's mouth and itself the headwaters of the Rhône. It is called Gletsch (some short of Gletscher, the German term for glacier), since the first building was the predecessor of the Hôtel Glacier du Rhône (c. 1860) built more or less just next to the glacier's mouth in 1830.
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Place details
- Locality
- Obergoms
- Region
- Valais/Wallis
- Country
- Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra
- Population
- 0
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human settlement
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Obergoms
- Elevation
- +1759
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Rhône
- Image
- Gletsch valley.jpg
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thumb|300px|Gletsch with the Furka (left) and Grimsel roads (right) Gletsch (; ) is a hamlet in the German-speaking half of the canton of Valais, located in the upper Rhone valley, called Obergoms ('Upper Goms'), , southeast below the Rhone Glacier's mouth and itself the headwaters of the Rhône. It is called Gletsch (some short of Gletscher, the German term for glacier), since the first building was the predecessor of the Hôtel Glacier du Rhône (c. 1860) built more or less just next to the glacier's mouth in 1830.
It belongs to the municipality of Obergoms.