Winterhorn

Winterhorn is a peak in , and has an elevation of 2,662 metres. Winterhorn is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gotthard Pass and Lago di Lucendro.

Mountain saddle
Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The or St. at 2,106 m is a mountain pass in the traversing the Saint-Gotthard Massif and connecting northern Switzerland with southern .

Reservoir
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a at the St. Gotthard Pass in the municipality of of the canton of , . The dam Lucendro was built between 1994 and 1947.

Railway station
Photo: NAC, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a metre gauge station serving the municipality of , in the Canton of , . The station is close to the eastern portal of the Furka Base Tunnel, on the Matterhorn Gotthard Bahn, which connects in , via in Uri, with , Uri, and , Graubünden.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Realp and Swiss Alps.

Village
Photo: SteveK, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a municipality in the canton of in .

Photo: Ypsilon from Finland, CC0.
The region of , conventionally referred to as the , represents a major natural feature of the country and is, along with the Swiss Plateau and the Swiss portion of the Jura Mountains, one of its three main physiographic regions.

Village
Photo: Paebi, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a village and a municipality in the middle of the Alpine valley called in the canton of in .

Winterhorn

Latitude
46.58683° or 46° 35′ 13″ north
Longitude
8.5393° or 8° 32′ 22″ east
Elevation
2,662 metres (8,734 feet)
Open location code
8FRCHGPQ+PP
Open­Street­Map ID
node 2418151061
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­peak
Geo­Names ID
6935550
Wiki­data ID
Q22627917
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Satellite Map

Discover Winterhorn from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Swedish—“Winterhorn” goes by many names.
  • Cebuano: “Winterhorn (tumoy sa bukid sa Swisa, Kanton Uri)”
  • Cebuano: “Winterhorn”
  • Chinese: “溫特山”
  • Dutch: “Winterhorn”
  • German: “Winterhorn”
  • Italian: “Pizzo d’Orsino”
  • Swedish: “Winterhorn”

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