Zapporthorn
The Zapporthorn or Pizzo Zapport is a mountain of the Swiss Lepontine Alps, overlooking San Bernardino Pass in Graubünden. Its summit is the tripoint between the valleys of Hinterrhein, Calanca and Mesolcina.Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Capricorn4049, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Photo: Capricorn4049, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Marscholhorn and Piz de Mucia.
Marscholhorn
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Marscholhorn is a mountain of the Swiss Lepontine Alps, overlooking the San Bernardino Pass in the canton of Graubünden. It lies at the eastern end of the range between the Hinterrhein valley and the Mesolcina, east of the Zapporthorn.
Piz de Mucia
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Piz de Mucia is a mountain of the Swiss Lepontine Alps, overlooking San Bernardino in the canton of Graubünden. It lies south-east of the Zapporthorn, between the valleys of Calanca and Mesolcina.
Puntone dei Fraciòn
Peak
Puntone dei Fraciòn is a 3,202-metre-high mountain in the Lepontine Alps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of Ticino and Graubünden. It is the highest peak of the Calanca valley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dandrio and San Bernardino.
Dandrio
Hamlet
The Blenio District is a district of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. It has a population of 5,656. The capital of the district is Acquarossa.
San Bernardino
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Bernardino is a mountainous village in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland. It is the southern entry point to the San Bernardino tunnel, which complemented the road over the San Bernardino Pass in 1967, opening a new all-year-round road to crossing the Alps.
Hinterrhein
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hinterrhein is a village and a former municipality in the Viamala Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The village is located near the start of the river Hinterrhein/Rein Posteriur, one of the two initial tributaries of the Rhine. Hinterrhein is situated 9 km northeast of Zapporthorn.
Zapporthorn
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,155 metres
- Description: mountain in Switzerland
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Mesocco, Region Moesa, Graubünden, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.47963° or 46° 28′ 47″ northLongitude
9.11278° or 9° 6′ 46″ eastElevation
3,155 metres (10,351 feet)Open location code
8FRFF4H7+V4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1458176610OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Venetian—“Zapporthorn” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Запортхорн”
- Cebuano: “Zapporthorn”
- Chinese: “察波特山”
- Dutch: “Zapporthorn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل زاپورثورن”
- Georgian: “ცაპორტჰორნი”
- German: “Zapporthorn”
- Italian: “Pizzo Zapport”
- Italian: “Zapporthorn”
- Ladin: “Zapporthorn”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Zapporthorn”
- Persian: “زاپورتورن”
- Polish: “Pizzo Zapport”
- Swedish: “Zapporthorn”
- Venetian: “Piso Zapport”
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