Piz Buin
Piz Buin is a mountain in the Silvretta range of the Alps on the border between Austria and Switzerland. It forms the border between the Swiss canton of Graubünden and the Austrian state of Vorarlberg and is the highest peak in Vorarlberg.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Luidger, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,312 metres
- Description: mountain of the Silvretta Alps at the border of Vorarlberg, Austria, and Grisons, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Punta Buin”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Piz Buin Pitschen and Piz Mon.
Piz Buin Pitschen
Peak
Piz Buin Pitschen or Kleiner Piz Buin is a peak in the Silvretta Alps. The Piz Buin Pitschen lies western of his higher neighbor, the Piz Buin Grond or Großer Piz Buin.
Signalhorn
Peak
Photo: Thomas Dagonnier, CC BY 2.0.
The Signalhorn is a mountain of the Silvretta Alps, located on the border between Switzerland and Austria. It lies just east of the Silvretta Pass and is the tripoint between the regions of Prättigau and Engadin and Montafon.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Guarda and Bos-cha.
Guarda
Village
Guarda is a former municipality in Inn District in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Ardez, Guarda, Tarasp, Ftan and Sent merged into the municipality of Scuol. Guarda is situated 8 km south of Piz Buin.
Bos-cha
Hamlet
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 1.0.
Bos-cha is a hamlet, which is situated 8 km southeast of Piz Buin.
Giarsun
Hamlet
Giarsun is an Alpine village in the Lower Engadin valley in the Graubünden canton in Switzerland. Giarsun is situated 8 km south of Piz Buin.
Piz Buin
- Categories: mountain, main peak, three-thousander, and landform
- Location: Gemeinde Gaschurn-Partenen, Bludenz District, Vorarlberg, Austria, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.84412° or 46° 50′ 39″ northLongitude
10.11889° or 10° 7′ 8″ eastElevation
3,312 metres (10,866 feet)Open location code
8FRGR4V9+JHOpenStreetMap ID
node 293238266OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Piz Buin” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيز بوين”
- Basque: “Piz Buin”
- Catalan: “Piz Buin”
- Cebuano: “Piz Buin”
- Chinese: “布因峰”
- Czech: “Piz Buin”
- Danish: “Piz Buin”
- Dutch: “Piz Buin”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بيز بوين”
- Estonian: “Piz Buin”
- French: “Piz Buin”
- German: “Grosser Piz Buin”
- German: “Großer Piz Buin”
- German: “Ochsenspitze”
- German: “Piz Buin”
- Interlingue: “Piz Buin”
- Italian: “Piz Buin”
- Ladin: “Piz Buin”
- Latvian: “Buina smaile”
- Lombard: “Piz Buin”
- Luxembourgish: “Piz Buin”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Piz Buin”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piz Buin”
- Norwegian: “Piz Buin”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Piz Buin”
- Persian: “پیز بوئین”
- Polish: “Piz Buin”
- Portuguese: “Piz Buin”
- Romansh: “Piz Buin Grond”
- Romansh: “Piz Buin”
- Spanish: “Piz Buin”
- Swedish: “Piz Buin”
- Venetian: “Piso Buin”
- Western Panjabi: “پز بوئن”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Buinlücke and Vermuntjoch.
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