Ayer
Ayer 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 Chandolin, 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 681 residents
- Description: village in Anniviers, canton of Valais, Switzerland
- Also known as: “Ayer VS” and “Ayer, Switzerland”
- Postal code: 3961
Places of Interest
Highlights include Corne de Sorebois and Les 3 Caves blanches.
Corne de Sorebois
Scenic viewpoint
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Corne de Sorebois is a mountain in the Pennine Alps in Switzerland. It is located near Zinal in Valais. Sorebois is the name of an alpine pasture on the east slopes of the mountain. Corne de Sorebois is situated 3½ km south of Ayer.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mission and Grimentz.
Grimentz
Village
Photo: Reustli, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Grimentz 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, Saint Jean, Saint-Luc and Vissoie to form the municipality of Anniviers.
Saint-Jean
Village
Photo: Espandero, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Saint-Jean 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-Luc and Vissoie to form the municipality of Anniviers.
Ayer
- Categories: former municipality of Switzerland and locality
- Location: Anniviers, Sierre District, Valais, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.17877° or 46° 10′ 44″ northLongitude
7.60327° or 7° 36′ 12″ eastPopulation
681Elevation
1,457 metres (4,780 feet)Open location code
8FR95JH3+G8OpenStreetMap ID
node 1436350146OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2661654Wikidata ID
Q212308
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arpitan to Western Panjabi—“Ayer” goes by many names.
- Arpitan: “Ayèr”
- Asturian: “Ayer”
- Cebuano: “Ayer”
- Chinese: “艾耶爾”
- Dutch: “Ayer”
- French: “Ayer”
- German: “Ayer”
- Irish: “Ayer”
- Italian: “Ayer”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ayer”
- Piemontese: “Ayer”
- Portuguese: “Ayer”
- Romansh: “Ayer”
- Spanish: “Ayer”
- Swedish: “Ayer, Valais”
- Swedish: “Ayer”
- Turkish: “Ayer”
- Upper Sorbian: “Ayer”
- Volapük: “Ayer”
- Western Panjabi: “آیر”
- “Ayer”
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