Unterschächen
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Unterschächen is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland, situated in the upper Schächental.
Key facts
- Swiss town.subject_name
- Unterschächen
- Swiss town.image_photo
- Unterschaechen-Dorf.jpg
- Swiss town.municipality_type
- municipality
- Swiss town.imagepath_flag
- CHE Unterschächen Flag.svg
- Swiss town.imagepath_coa
- CHE Unterschaechen COA.svg
- Swiss town.canton
- Uri
- Swiss town.iso code region
- CH-UR
- Swiss town.district
- n.a.
- Swiss town.postal_code
- 6465
- Swiss town.municipality_code
- 1219
- Swiss town.area
- 80.22
- Swiss town.elevation
- 995
- Swiss town.website
- www.unterschaechen.ch
- Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities
- Bürglen, Muotathal (SZ), Schattdorf, Silenen, Spiringen
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Unterschächen is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland, situated in the upper Schächental.
==Geography== thumb|left|Klausen Pass from the hamlet of Urigen in Unterschächen Unterschächen has an area, , of . Of this area, 35.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 9.4% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.8% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (54.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). , 5.6% of the total land area was heavily forested, while 2.1% is covered in small trees and shrubbery. Of the agricultural land, 4.3% is used for orchards or vine crops and 31.3% is used for alpine pastures. Of the settled areas, 0.3% is covered with buildings, and 0.5% is transportation infrastructure. Of the unproductive areas, 0.5% is unproductive flowing water (rivers), 40.4% is too rocky for vegetation, and 13.2% is other unproductive land.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Unterschächen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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