Badus
Piz Badus or Six Madun is a mountain in the Lepontine Alps, lying on the border between the cantons of Uri and Graubünden. In its northwestern face, which is the Graubünden side, lies Tomasee, source of the Anterior Rhine.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 2,928 metres
- Description: mountain in the Lepontine Alps
- Also known as: “Piz Badus”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Tomasee and Rossbodenstock.
Tomasee
Lake
Photo: Dages, Public domain.
Lake Toma is a lake at the northern face of Piz Badus, above the village of Tschamut in the canton of Grisons, Switzerland. Its surface area is 2.5 ha.
Rossbodenstock
Peak
Photo: Waldteufel78, CC BY-SA 3.0 de.
Rossbodenstock is a mountain peak of the Saint-Gotthard Massif and part of the Lepontine Alps south of the Oberalp Pass. It is 2,836 metres high; its peak is located on the border between the cantons of Uri and Graubünden, which follows the ridge from north to south.
Sources of the Rhine
Spring
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Lake Toma in the Swiss canton of Grisons is generally regarded as the Source of the River Rhine. The lake's outflow, the Rein da Tuma, subsequently becomes the Anterior Rhine, which later confluences with the Posterior Rhine to form the Rhine.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tschamut and Hospental.
Hospental
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Hospental is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland.
Göschenen
Village
Photo: Jan K, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Göschenen is a village and municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland. It sits at the northern end of the Gotthard tunnel. The Göschenen riots saw Urner troops opening fire on Italian miners demonstrating for better working conditions and wages on the tunnel's construction site. Göschenen is situated 8 km northwest of Badus.
Badus
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Andermatt, Uri, Canton of Uri, Central Switzerland, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.62255° or 46° 37′ 21″ northLongitude
8.66358° or 8° 39′ 49″ eastElevation
2,928 metres (9,606 feet)Open location code
8FRCJMF7+2COpenStreetMap ID
node 363833602OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Badus” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بيز بادوس”
- Bulgarian: “Бадус”
- Cebuano: “Badus”
- Chinese: “巴杜斯山”
- Dutch: “Piz Badus”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل بيز بادوس”
- French: “Six Madun”
- German: “Badus”
- German: “Piz Badus”
- German: “Six Madun”
- Indonesian: “Piz Badus”
- Japanese: “ピッツ・バドゥス”
- Ladin: “Badus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piz Badus”
- Persian: “پیز بادوس”
- Polish: “Six Madun”
- Spanish: “Piz Badus”
- Swedish: “Badus”
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Highlights include Piz Tuma and Piz Tagliola.
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