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Rheinwald
Sign in to savethumb|The Rheinwald looking north between Nufenen and Hinterrhein The Rheinwald (from Latin Rheni vallis meaning "Rhine Valley"; Romansh: Valrain) is a valley in the Canton of Grisons in Switzerland, the first section of the Hinterrhein valley. The river Hinterrhein flows through three valleys in the Grisons, the Rheinwald, the Schams and the Domleschg.
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The entry is geolocated on the map in CH, across 2 mapped points.
Vinony files it under Geography of the Grisons, Regions of Switzerland and Rheinwald.
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- Instance of
- valley
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Canton of the Grisons
- Elevation
- 1757
- Body of water
- Hinterrhein
- Image
- Rheinwald Splügen.jpg
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thumb|The Rheinwald looking north between Nufenen and Hinterrhein The Rheinwald (from Latin Rheni vallis meaning "Rhine Valley"; Romansh: Valrain) is a valley in the Canton of Grisons in Switzerland, the first section of the Hinterrhein valley. The river Hinterrhein flows through three valleys in the Grisons, the Rheinwald, the Schams and the Domleschg.
== Geography == thumb|left | upright | Rheinwald near Splügen, around 1920 thumb|left|Aerial view (1954) The Rheinwald is about 26 km long and mainly runs from East to West. It is lined on both sides with peaks of over 3000 m high. The highest peaks are the Rheinwaldhorn (3402 m) to the West and the Pizzo Tambo (3279 m) in the South. The Hinterrhein leaves the valley at the entrance to the Rofla Gorge, which separates the Rheinwald from the Schams valley.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Rheinwald” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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