Port-Valais
Sign in to savePort-Valais () is a municipality of the district of Monthey in the French-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Port-Valais
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Ship station of Port-Valais.jpg
- Swiss town.image_caption
- Port-Valais dock
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Port-Valais Flag.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Port-Valais COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Valais
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-VS
- Swiss town.district
- Monthey
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 1897
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 6154
- Swiss town.area
- 14.4
- Swiss town.elevation
- 390
- Swiss town.population
- 2817
- Swiss town.populationof
- 2002
- Swiss town.website
- www.port-valais.ch
- Swiss town.places
- Le Bouveret, Les Evouettes
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Chessel (VD), Noville (VD), Saint-Gingolph, Vevey (VD), Vouvry
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Port-Valais () is a municipality of the district of Monthey in the French-speaking part of the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
==History== Port-Valais is first mentioned in 1180 as ad porvalesium. The municipality was formerly known by its German name Portwallis, however, that name is no longer used.