Wassen

Also known as Wassen UR

Wassen is a village and municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland.

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Swiss town.subject_name: Wassen
Swiss town.image_photo: Kirche Wassen.jpg
Swiss town.image_caption: Pfarrkirche St. Gallus
Swiss town.municipality_type: municipality
Swiss town.imagepath_coa: Wappen Wassen.svg
Swiss town.canton: Uri
Swiss town.iso code region: CH-UR
Swiss town.district: n.a.
Swiss town.postal_code: 6484
Swiss town.municipality_code: 1220
Swiss town.area: 97.02
Swiss town.elevation: 930
Swiss town.website: www.wassen.ch
Swiss town.neighboring_municipalities: Attinghausen, Engelberg (OW), Erstfeld, Gadmen (BE), Göschenen, Gurtnellen

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Wikidata facts

Official name: Wassen
Population: 465
Area: 96.88
Elevation: 1889
Official website: www.wassen.ch
Image: SOB RABe 526 Wassen.jpg
Dialing code: 041
Licence plate code: UR

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Commons category: Wassen
postal code: 6484
native label: Wassen
external data available at URL: geo.ld.admin.ch/boundaries/municipality/1220

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Wassen is a village and municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland.

==Geography== thumb|left|Double loop curved tunnel on the Gotthardbahn rail line near Wassen thumb|Aerial view (1963) , Wassen has an area of . Of this area, 12.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 18.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (68.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). , 9.6% of the total land area was heavily forested, while 6.8% is covered in small trees and shrubbery. Of the agricultural land, 2.5% is used for orchards or vine crops and 10.1% is used for alpine pastures. Of the settled areas, 0.2% is covered with buildings, and 0.8% is transportation infrastructure. Of the unproductive areas, 0.1% is unproductive standing water (ponds or lakes), 1.2% is unproductive flowing water (rivers), 48.5% is too rocky for vegetation, and 18.3% is other unproductive land.