Schüpfheim
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Schüpfheim is a municipality in the district of Entlebuch in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is part of the UNESCO Entlebuch Biosphere Reserve since 2001.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Schüpfheim
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Schuepfheim entlebuch 02.JPG
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Schuepfheim COA.png
- Swiss town.canton
- Lucerne
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-LU
- Swiss town.district
- Entlebuch
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6170
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1008
- Swiss town.area
- 38.37
- Swiss town.elevation
- 719
- Swiss town.website
- www.schuepfheim.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Entlebuch, Escholzmatt, Flühli, Hasle, Romoos
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Schüpfheim is a municipality in the district of Entlebuch in the canton of Lucerne in Switzerland. It is part of the UNESCO Entlebuch Biosphere Reserve since 2001.
==Geography== thumb|left|Aerial view (1957) Schüpfheim has an area of . Of this area, 59.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 33.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 5.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.9%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). , 32.82% of the total land area was forested. Of the agricultural land, 59.3% is used for farming or pastures, while 0.68% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the settled areas, 2.61% is covered with buildings, 0.37% is industrial, 0.26% is classed as special developments, 0.21% is parks or greenbelts and 1.88% is transportation infrastructure. Of the unproductive areas, 0.55% is unproductive flowing water (rivers) and 1.33% is other unproductive land.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Schüpfheim” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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