Saxetbach
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The Saxetbach is a mountain river south of Interlaken in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. It is a left tributary of the river Lütschine. It flows through the village Saxeten and joins the Lütschine in Wilderswil. It forms a narrow ravine, the Saxetbach Gorge.
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- Instance of
- stream
- Country
- Switzerland
- Image
- Saxeten Gorge.jpg
- Length
- 10.2
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- mouth of the watercourse
- Lütschine
- waterbody number
- CH/1810
- drainage basin
- Rhine basin
- watershed area
- 21.2
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The Saxetbach is a mountain river south of Interlaken in the Canton of Bern, Switzerland. It is a left tributary of the river Lütschine. It flows through the village Saxeten and joins the Lütschine in Wilderswil. It forms a narrow ravine, the Saxetbach Gorge.
==1999 accident== On 27 July 1999, there was an accident in the Saxetenbach Gorge, above the village of Saxeten, in which 21 young people from Australia, New Zealand, England, South Africa, and Switzerland died. 48 people from two tour parties were doing a canyoning activity (where participants float, swim and climb through a confined area like a canyon). The event was organized by the company Adventure World (based in nearby Wilderswil).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Saxetbach” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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