Piz Varuna
Piz Varuna is a mountain in the Bernina Range of the Alps, located on the border between Italy and Switzerland. It lies east of Piz Palü, between the Val Poschiavo and the Val Malenco.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,453 metres
- Description: mountain in the Bernina Range of the Alps
- Also known as: “Pizzo di Varuna”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Piz Canton and Piz Palü.
Piz Palü
Peak
Photo: Capricorn4049, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Piz Palü is a mountain in the Bernina Range of the Alps, located between Switzerland and Italy. It is a large glaciated massif composed of three main summits, on a ridge running from west to east.
Alp Grüm railway station
Railway station
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Alp Grüm railway station is a railway station in the municipality of Poschiavo, in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It is located on the south side of Bernina Pass, on the Bernina line of the Rhaetian Railway.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Alp Grüm and Cavaglia.
Cavaglia
Hamlet
Cavaglia is a small hamlet on the western flank of Val Poschiavo in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. Perched at 1,703 m on the hanging Plan da l'Alp terrace, it lies roughly 4.7 kilometres north-west of Poschiavo village but 700 metres higher, making the road distance 11 kilometres and the Bernina Line rail journey about 25 minutes.
San Carlo
Village
Photo: Paebi, CC BY-SA 3.0.
San Carlo is a village in the Val Poschiavo in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It lies at 1,092 metres above sea level and is in the municipality of Poschiavo, some 2 kilometres north of the village of the same name.
Piz Varuna
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Poschiavo, Bernina Region, Graubünden, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.35241° or 46° 21′ 9″ northLongitude
9.99355° or 9° 59′ 37″ eastElevation
3,453 metres (11,329 feet)Open location code
8FRF9X2V+XCOpenStreetMap ID
node 1372731577OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
Discover Piz Varuna from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Catalan to Venetian—“Piz Varuna” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Piz Varuna”
- Cebuano: “Piz Varuna”
- Chinese: “瓦魯納峰”
- Czech: “Piz Varuna”
- Dutch: “Piz Varuna”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل پيز ڤارونا”
- Estonian: “Piz Varuna”
- French: “Piz Varuna”
- German: “Piz Varuna”
- German: “Pizzo di Verona”
- German: “Pizzo Verona”
- Italian: “Piz Varuna”
- Italian: “Pizzo Verona”
- Ladin: “Piz Varuna”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piz Varuna”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Piz Varuna”
- Persian: “پیز وارونا”
- Portuguese: “Piz Varuna”
- Spanish: “Piz Varuna”
- Swedish: “Piz Varuna”
- Venetian: “Piso Varuna”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Plan da la Gesa and La Casina.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Laghi di Varuna and Laghi di Varuna.
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