page_title: Splügen Pass
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Splügen Pass / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Splügenpass GR, Switzerland
context_page_description: The Splügen Pass is an Alpine mountain pass of the Lepontine Alps. It connects the Swiss, Grisonian Splügen 5 kilometres to the north 675 metres below the pass with the Italian Chiavenna 21 kilometres to the south at the end of the Valle San Giacomo 1,789 metres below the pass.
context_section_description: The pass road connects the Swiss Hinterrhein valley and Splügen in the canton of Graubünden with the Valle San Giacomo and Chiavenna in the Italian province of Sondrio, the road continuing to Lake Como. The pass is the water divide between the drainage basins of the Rhine, which flows into the North Sea, and the Po, which flows into the Adriatic. The pass is overlooked by Pizzo Tambo and the Surettahorn, on its western and eastern side respectively. On the Italian side of the pass is Montespluga, a small three street village which is cut off from both Italy and Switzerland during the winter.
  Since the opening of the San Bernardino road tunnel in 1967, the pass has lost its former importance; it is not kept open in winter. Thanks to its lack of importance it is now a quiet pass where essential portions of the historical roads have survived allowing a good historical review for hikers on the Via Spluga.
caption: Historic Via Spluga
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