Piz Costainas
Piz Costainas is a mountain of the Ortler Alps, straddling the Swiss-Italian border between Graubünden and South Tyrol. It is the easternmost mountain rising above 3,000 metres in Switzerland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,004 metres
- Description: mountain shared by Switzerland and Italy
- Also known as: “Piz Costainas - Furkelspitz”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Umbrail Pass and Piz Val Gronda.
Umbrail Pass
Mountain saddle
Photo: Idéfix, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Umbrail Pass is a high mountain pass on the Italy–Switzerland border, connecting Santa Maria in Val Müstair with Bormio in the Adda valley. On the Italian side, it connects to the Stelvio Pass road and the Valtellina.
Piz Minschuns
Peak
Piz Minschuns or Schafberg is a mountain in the Fallaschkamm mountains, a subgroup of the Ortler Alps, more precisely on the eastern edge of the Val Costainas, located on the border between Italy and Switzerland.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Trafoi and Santa Maria Val Müstair.
Santa Maria Val Müstair
Village
Photo: Taxiarchos228, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Santa Maria Val Müstair is a village in the Val Müstair municipality in the district of Inn in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. In 2009 Santa Maria Val Müstair merged with Lü, Müstair, Fuldera, Tschierv and Valchava to form the municipality of Val Müstair.
Valchava
Village
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Valchava is a village in the Val Müstair of the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It was an independent municipality in the district of Inn until on 1 January 2009 Valchava merged with Fuldera, Lü, Müstair, Santa Maria Val Müstair and Tschierv to form Val Müstair.
Piz Costainas
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Graubünden, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.56227° or 46° 33′ 44″ northLongitude
10.47495° or 10° 28′ 30″ eastElevation
3,004 metres (9,856 feet)Open location code
8FRGHF6F+WXOpenStreetMap ID
node 950673949OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Venetian—“Piz Costainas” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Piz Costainas”
- Dutch: “Piz Costainas”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل پيز كوستايناس”
- German: “Furkelspitz”
- Italian: “Furkelspitz”
- Italian: “Furkelspitze”
- Italian: “Piz Costainas”
- Ladin: “Piz Costainas”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Piz Costainas”
- Persian: “پیز کاستیناس”
- Romansh: “Piz Costainas”
- Spanish: “Piz Costainas”
- Swedish: “Piz Costainas”
- Venetian: “Piso Costainas”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Praderalm - Alpe di Prato and Planad - Panada.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Furkeljoch - Fuorcia Costainas - La Forcola and Fallaschkopf.
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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 Costainas”. Photo: Martingarten, CC BY-SA 3.0.