Chandolin
Chandolin is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. An independent municipality before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring Ayer, Grimentz, Saint Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie to form the municipality of Anniviers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 79 residents
- Description: village and former municipality in Anniviers in the canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Postal code: 3961
Places of Interest
Highlights include Illhorn and Illsee.
Illhorn
Peak
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Illhorn is a mountain of the Swiss Pennine Alps, overlooking Chandolin in the canton of Valais. With a height of 2,717 metres above sea level, it is the highest point of the Illgraben valley.
Illsee
Reservoir
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Illsee is a natural lake used as a reservoir above Sierre, in the Valais, Switzerland. Its surface area is 0.21 km2. Illsee is situated 2½ km east of Chandolin.
Bagnoud Observatory
Observatory
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
François-Xavier Bagnoud Observatory is an astronomical observatory located above the village of Saint-Luc in Valais, Switzerland, close to the top of the funicular, at a height of 2,200 m. Bagnoud Observatory is situated 3 km south of Chandolin.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Saint-Luc and Vissoie.
Saint-Luc
Village
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-Luc is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. An independent municipality before, it merged on 1 January 2009 with neighboring Ayer, Chandolin, Grimentz, Saint Jean and Vissoie to form the municipality of Anniviers. Saint-Luc is situated 3½ km south of Chandolin.
Vissoie
Village
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Vissoie is a village in the district of Sierre in the Swiss canton of Valais. The village became an independent municipality in 1905 when it split from the municipalities of Ayer and Grimentz. Vissoie is situated 4½ km south of Chandolin.
Mayoux
Village
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Mayoux is a village in Valais, Switzerland. Mayoux is situated 5 km south of Chandolin.
Chandolin
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland, neighborhood, statistical territorial entity, and locality
- Location: Anniviers, Sierre District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.25258° or 46° 15′ 9″ northLongitude
7.59867° or 7° 35′ 55″ eastPopulation
79Elevation
1,930 metres (6,332 feet)Open location code
8FR97H3X+2FOpenStreetMap ID
node 1436350147OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2661218Wikidata ID
Q586631
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Western Panjabi—“Chandolin” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “尚多兰”
- Chinese: “尚多蘭”
- Dutch: “Chandolin”
- French: “Chandolin”
- German: “Chandolin”
- Irish: “Chandolin”
- Italian: “Chandolin”
- Lombard: “Chandolin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Chandolin”
- Piemontese: “Chandolin”
- Portuguese: “Chandolin”
- Romansh: “Chandolin”
- Swedish: “Chandolin”
- Turkish: “Chandolin”
- Upper Sorbian: “Chandolin”
- Volapük: “Chandolin”
- Welsh: “Chandolin”
- Western Panjabi: “چندولن”
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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 “Chandolin”. Photo: 100zax, CC BY-SA 3.0.