Piz Cancian
Piz Cancian is a mountain in the Bernina Range of the Alps, located on the border between Italy and the Switzerland. The summit has an elevation of 3,103 metres above sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Pizzo Scalino and Corno Campascio.
Pizzo Scalino
Peak
Photo: Redlopez, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pizzo Scalino is a mountain of the Bernina Range in Lombardy, Italy. It is known as the Valemalenco Matterhorn due to its pyramidal shape when viewed from the valley below.
Corno Campascio
Peak
Photo: Sidonius, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Corno Campascio is a mountain of the Bernina Range, located on the border between Italy and Switzerland. It lies between the Val Malenco and the Val Poschiavo. The closest locality is Poschiavo on the east side.
Capanna Cederna-Maffina
Wilderness hut
Photo: Astraspera, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Capanna Cederna-Maffina is a wilderness hut.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sant’Antonio and Le Prese.
Sant’Antonio
Quarter
Photo: Ximonic, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Poschiavo is a municipality in the Bernina Region in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland.
Le Prese
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Le Prese is a village in the Val Poschiavo in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It lies at 965 metres above sea level at the northern end of Lago di Poschiavo, and is in the municipality of Poschiavo, some 4 kilometres south of the village of the same name.
Prada
Village
Photo: Landbilder, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Poschiavo is a municipality in the Bernina Region in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland.
Piz Cancian
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,102 metres
- Description: mountain shared by Switzerland and Italy
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Chiuro, Province of Sondrio, Lombardy, Northwest Italy, Italy, Europe
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Latitude
46.28328° or 46° 16′ 60″ northLongitude
9.99963° or 9° 59′ 59″ eastElevation
3,102 metres (10,177 feet)Open location code
8FRF7XMX+8VOpenStreetMap ID
node 471229823OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Piz Cancian” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Piz Cancian”
- Dutch: “Piz Cancian”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل پيز كانسيان”
- Indonesian: “Piz Cancian”
- Italian: “Piz Cancian”
- Italian: “Pizzo Canciano”
- Ladin: “Piz Cancian”
- Lombard: “Piz Cancian”
- Lombard: “Pizz Cancian”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piz Cancian”
- Persian: “پیز کانسیان”
- Spanish: “Piz Cancian”
- Venetian: “Piso Canciano”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Turiglion da Cancian and Palu Granda.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cima di Vartegna and Colle di Val Fontana.
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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 “Piz Cancian”. Photo: Sidonius, CC BY 3.0.