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Scattered houses and buildings of an alpine village sit among green meadows and forests in the upper Engadin valley, with snow-capped mountains in the background. Graubünden canton, Switzerland Engadin
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Scattered houses and buildings of an alpine village sit among green meadows and forests in the upper Engadin valley, with snow-capped mountains in the background.
Switzerland: Alpine village An Alpine village near Saint Moritz in the upper Engadin valley, Graubünden canton, Switzerland.

Graubünden

canton and historical league, Switzerland
Also known as: Grigioni, Grishun, Grisons
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Graubünden, largest and most easterly canton of Switzerland; it has an area of 2,743 square miles (7,105 square km), of which two-thirds is classed as productive (forests covering one-fifth of the total). The entire canton is mountainous, containing peaks and glaciers of the Tödi (11,857 feet [3,614 meters]), Bernina (13,284 feet [4,049 meters]), Adula, Albula, Silvretta, and Rhätikon ranges in the Central Alps. These ranges are penetrated by a system of level valleys, of which...

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