Hinterrhein
The Hinterrhein, or Posterior Rhine, is the right of the two initial tributaries of the Rhine. It is located in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland. One of its upper tributaries is Reno di Lei, which is the outflow of Lago di Lei located in Lombardy, Italy.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Stream
- Description: river in Switzerland
- Also known as: “Ragn Posteriur”, “Rein Posteriur”, and “Rhein Posteriur”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Schloss Reichenau GR and Reichenau-Tamins railway station.
Reichenau-Tamins railway station
Railway station
Reichenau-Tamins railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Domat/Ems serving the communities of Reichenau and Tamins in Switzerland. It is an important station for connections between the Landquart–Thusis and the Reichenau-Tamins–Disentis/Mustér lines as it is where the two lines diverge.
Reformierte Kirche Tamins
Church
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Reformierte Kirche Tamins is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Reichenau and Tamins.
Reichenau
Hamlet
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Reichenau is a village in the municipality of Tamins in the Canton of Graubünden, Switzerland, where the two Rhine tributaries Vorderrhein and Hinterrhein meet, forming the Alpine Rhine.
Tamins
Village
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Tamins is a village and a municipality in the Imboden Region in the Swiss canton of Grisons.
Hinterrhein
- Categories: river and body of water
- Location: Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Armenian to Venetian—“Hinterrhein” goes by many names.
- Armenian: “Հետին Հռենոս”
- Armenian: “Հինտերռայն”
- Asturian: “Ríu Hinterrhein”
- Catalan: “Hinterrhein”
- Catalan: “Rin Posterior”
- Cebuano: “Hinterrhein”
- Chinese: “後萊茵河”
- Czech: “Zadní Rýn”
- Dutch: “Achter-Rijn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “هينترهين”
- Finnish: “Hinterrhein”
- French: “Rhin posterieur”
- French: “Rhin postérieur”
- German: “Hinterrhein”
- German: “Rain posteriur”
- German: “Sutsilvan”
- Irish: “Hinterrhein”
- Italian: “Reno Posteriore”
- Korean: “힌터라인강”
- Lombard: “Hinterrhein”
- Lombard: “Reno Posteriur”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Hinterrhein”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Hinterrhein”
- Norwegian: “Hinterrhein”
- Persian: “هینترراین”
- Romanian: “Hinterrhein”
- Romanian: “Rinul Posterior”
- Saterfriesisch: “Bääterrhien”
- Spanish: “Hinterrhein”
- Spanish: “Rin posterior”
- Spanish: “Rin Posterior”
- Swedish: “Hinterrhein”
- Swiss German: “Hinterrhii”
- Tosk Albanian: “Hinterrhein”
- Ukrainian: “Задній Рейн”
- Venetian: “Fiume Reno Posteriore”
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Notable Places Nearby
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