page_title: Albula/Alvra
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Albula/Alvra / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Brienz GR/Brinzauls
context_page_description: Albula/Alvra is a municipality in the Albula Region in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Alvaschein, Mon, Stierva, Tiefencastel, Alvaneu, Brienz/Brinzauls and Surava merged to form the new municipality of Albula/Alvra.
context_section_description: Based on the 2009 survey, the former municipalities that make up Albula/Alvra had an area of 93.93 km² (36.27 sq mi).  Of this area, 26.37 km² (10.18 sq mi) or 28.1% was used for agricultural purposes, while 43.53 km² (16.81 sq mi) or 46.3% was forested.   Of the rest of the land, 2.62 km² (1.01 sq mi) or 2.8% was settled (buildings or roads), 0.99 km² (0.38 sq mi) or 1.1% was either rivers or lakes and 20.46 km² (7.90 sq mi) or 21.8% was unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 0.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.3%.  Out of the forested land, 41.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 1.0% is used for growing crops and  8.6% is pastures and 18.5% is used for alpine pastures.  Of the water in the municipality, 0.2% is in lakes and 0.8% is in rivers and streams.  Of the unproductive areas, 6.4% is unproductive vegetation and 15.4% is too rocky for vegetation.
caption: Brienz/Brinzauls village and surrounding mountains
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