Piz Kesch
Piz Kesch or Piz d'Es-cha is a peak in the Albula Alps of the Rhaetian Alps in Switzerland. At 3,418 metres, it is the highest peak in the Albula Alps and the municipality of Bergün, Grisons.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Luidger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Capricorn4049, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Porchabella Glacier and Piz Blaisun.
Porchabella Glacier
Glacier
Photo: Luidger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Porchabella Glacier is a 2.5 km long glacier in the Albula Range in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. In 1973 it had an area of 2.58 km2. The glacier lies at the foot of Piz Kesch and Piz Val Müra.
Piz Blaisun
Peak
Photo: Stefan.straub, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Piz Blaisun is a mountain of the Albula Alps, located north of the Albula Pass in the canton of Graubünden. Its summit is the tripoint between the Val Tuors, the Val d'Alvra and the Val d'Es-cha.
Piz Val Müra
Peak
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Piz Val Müra is a mountain of the Albula Alps, located east of Piz Kesch in the canton of Graubünden. The closest localities are Zuoz and Madulain.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include La Punt-Chamues-ch and Madulain.
La Punt-Chamues-ch
Village
Photo: Terfili, Public domain.
La Punt Chamues-ch is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of the Grisons.
Madulain
Village
Photo: Xenos, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Madulain is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of the Grisons.
Zuoz
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Zuoz is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of the Grisons.
Piz Kesch
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,417 metres
- Description: highest mountain of the Albula Alps in Grisons, Switzerland
- Categories: mountain, main peak, three-thousander, highest point, ultra-prominent peak, and landform
- Location: Zuoz, Maloja District, Graubünden, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.6213° or 46° 37′ 17″ northLongitude
9.87279° or 9° 52′ 22″ eastElevation
3,417 metres (11,211 feet)Open location code
8FRFJVCF+G4OpenStreetMap ID
node 1372766013OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Piz Kesch” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيز كيتش”
- Bulgarian: “Пиц Кеш”
- Cebuano: “Piz Kesch”
- Chinese: “凱施峰”
- Czech: “Piz Kesch”
- Dutch: “Piz Kesch”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بيز كيتش”
- French: “Piz Kesch”
- German: “Piz Kesch”
- Italian: “Piz d’Es-cha”
- Italian: “Piz Kesch”
- Ladin: “Piz Kesch”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piz d’Es-cha”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piz Kesch”
- Persian: “پیز کسچ”
- Polish: “Piz Kesch”
- Portuguese: “Piz Kesch”
- Romansh: “Piz d’Es-cha”
- Romansh: “Piz Kesch”
- Slovenian: “Piz Kesch”
- Spanish: “Piz Kesch”
- Swahili: “Piz Kesch”
- Swedish: “Piz Kesch”
- Turkish: “Piz Kesch”
- Venetian: “Piso Kesch”
- Western Panjabi: “پز کیش”
- “Piz Kesch”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Aguoglia d’Es-cha and Piz Cotschen.
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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 “Piz Kesch”. Photo: Luidger, CC BY-SA 3.0.