Klausen Pass
Klausen Pass is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps connecting Altdorf in the canton of Uri with Linthal in the canton of Glarus. Somewhat unusually, the boundary between the two cantons does not lie at the summit of the pass, but some 8 kilometres down the slope towards Linthal, with the summit being in Uri.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Places of Interest
Highlights include Glatten and Clariden.
Glatten
Peak
Photo: Wala, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Glatten is a mountain of the Schwyzer Alps, overlooking the Klausen Pass in the canton of Uri. It is the tripoint between the valleys Bisistal, Schächental and Urner Boden. The summit consists of a large karstic plateau.
Clariden
Peak
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The Clariden is a mountain in the Glarus Alps, located at an elevation of 3,267 m between the Swiss cantons of Uri and Glarus. While on the north the Clariden overlooks the 1,948 m high Klausen Pass, the south side is covered by large glaciers and firn.
Chammliberg
Peak
Photo: Böhringer, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Chammliberg is a mountain of the Glarus Alps, located south of the Klausen Pass in the canton of Uri. While the south side of the mountain is covered by the large Hüfi Glacier, the north-west side consists of an 800 metre high face.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Urnerboden and Spiringen.
Urnerboden
Village
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The Urnerboden is a village in the high valley of Urner Boden, and also an alp and a small high Alpine permanent settlement in the Swiss canton of Uri.
Spiringen
Village
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Spiringen is a village and a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. The municipality comprises two disjoint areas, separated by the municipality of Unterschächen and the Klausen Pass. Spiringen is situated 10 km west of Klausen Pass.
Klausen Pass
- Type: Mountain saddle with an elevation of 1,948 metres
- Description: mountain pass in Switzerland, between Uri and Glarus cantons
- Categories: mountain pass and landform
- Location: Unterschächen, Uri, Canton of Uri, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.86819° or 46° 52′ 6″ northLongitude
8.85544° or 8° 51′ 20″ eastElevation
1,948 metres (6,391 feet)Open location code
8FRCVV94+75OpenStreetMap ID
node 1604293771OpenStreetMap feature
natural=saddle
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Swiss German—“Klausen Pass” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Клаусенпас”
- Cebuano: “Klausenpass”
- Danish: “Klausenpasset”
- Dutch: “Klausenpas”
- Esperanto: “Klausen-Pasejo”
- Esperanto: “Klausen”
- Esperanto: “Klausenpasejo”
- French: “col du Klausen”
- French: “Col du Klausen”
- Georgian: “კლაუზენის უღელტეხილი”
- German: “Hauptstrasse 556”
- German: “Klausenpass”
- German: “Klausenstrasse”
- Inari Sami: “Klausen-várádâhnjuáski”
- Italian: “Passo del Klausen”
- Korean: “클라우젠 고개”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Klausenpasset”
- Polish: “Klausenpass”
- Russian: “Клаузен”
- Spanish: “Puerto de Klausen”
- Swedish: “Klausenpass”
- Swiss German: “Chlausepass”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Klausen Pass”. Photo: FeG, Public domain.