Silenen
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Silenen is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Silenen
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Silenen-Meierturm-Burghofstatt.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- Wappen Silenen.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Uri
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-UR
- Swiss town.district
- n.a.
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6473 Silenen6474 Amsteg6475 Bristen
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1216
- Swiss town.area
- 144.78
- Swiss town.elevation
- 510
- Swiss town.website
- www.silenen.ch
- Swiss town.places
- Bristen, Amsteg
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Disentis/Mustér (GR), Erstfeld, Gurtnellen, Linthal (GL), Schattdorf, Spiringen, Tujetsch (GR), Unterschächen
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Silenen is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland.
==Geography== thumb|Aerial view from 2000 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1932) Silenen municipality comprises the villages of Silenen (divided into three parts, Dörfli, Russ, Rusli), Amsteg, and Acherli, besides numerous smaller hamlets or dispersed settlements, including Schützen, Buechholz, Öfibach, Dägerlohn, Frentschenberg, Ried (Vorderried, Hinterried), Maderanerthal valley (St. Anton = Vorderbristen, Bristen = Hinterbristen, Cholplatz, Hälteli, Steinmatte, Schattigmatt etc.), Hofstetten, Silblen, and the Golzeren plateau (Egg, Hüseren, Seewen, etc.)
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Silenen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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