page_title: Kandergrund
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Kandergrund / Geography
caption_attribution_description: de:Kandergrund nach Süden
context_page_description: Kandergrund is a municipality in the Frutigen-Niedersimmental administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Kandergrund has an area of 32.09 km² (12.39 sq mi).  Of this area, 10.5 km² (4.1 sq mi) or 32.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 11.83 km² (4.57 sq mi) or 36.9% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 1.37 km² (0.53 sq mi) or 4.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.25 km² (0.097 sq mi) or 0.8% is either rivers or lakes and 8.07 km² (3.12 sq mi) or 25.2% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.8%.  Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.2% of the area  Out of the forested land, 32.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 10.9% is pastures and 21.9% is used for alpine pastures.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.  Of the unproductive areas, 11.1% is unproductive vegetation and 14.1% is too rocky for vegetation.
  The municipality is located in the upper Kander river valley.  It consists of the Bäuerten of Ausser Kandergrund, Inner-Kandergrund, Bunderbach, Mitholz, Reckental and Rüti.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Frutigen, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.  On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Frutigen-Niedersimmental.
caption: Kandergrund and the Kander valley
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