Clariden
The Clariden is a mountain in the Glarus Alps, located at an elevation of 3,267 m between the Swiss cantons of Uri and Glarus. While on the north the Clariden overlooks the 1,948 m high Klausen Pass, the south side is covered by large glaciers and firn.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Peak with an elevation of 3,267 metres
- Description: mountain in the Glarus Alps
- Also known as: “Claridenstock”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Bocktschingel and Klausen Pass.
Bocktschingel
Peak
Photo: Engie, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Bocktschingel is a mountain of the Glarus Alps, located on the border between the Swiss cantons of Uri and Glarus. It lies south-east of the Klausen Pass, on the range east of the Clariden.
Klausen Pass
Mountain saddle
Photo: FeG, Public domain.
Klausen Pass is a high mountain pass in the Swiss Alps connecting Altdorf in the canton of Uri with Linthal in the canton of Glarus. Somewhat unusually, the boundary between the two cantons does not lie at the summit of the pass, but some 8 kilometres down the slope towards Linthal, with the summit being in Uri.
Chammliberg
Peak
Photo: Böhringer, CC BY-SA 2.5.
The Chammliberg is a mountain of the Glarus Alps, located south of the Klausen Pass in the canton of Uri. While the south side of the mountain is covered by the large Hüfi Glacier, the north-west side consists of an 800 metre high face.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Urnerboden and Unterschächen.
Urnerboden
Village
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The Urnerboden is a village in the high valley of Urner Boden, and also an alp and a small high Alpine permanent settlement in the Swiss canton of Uri.
Unterschächen
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Unterschächen is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland, situated in the upper Schächental. Unterschächen is situated 8 km west of Clariden.
Clariden
- Categories: mountain and landform
- Location: Silenen, Uri, Canton of Uri, Switzerland, Central Europe, Europe
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Latitude
46.84203° or 46° 50′ 31″ northLongitude
8.87129° or 8° 52′ 17″ eastElevation
3,267 metres (10,719 feet)Open location code
8FRCRVRC+RGOpenStreetMap ID
node 286930151OpenStreetMap feature
natural=peak
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Western Panjabi—“Clariden” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كلاردين”
- Arabic: “كلاريدين”
- Cebuano: “Clariden”
- Chinese: “克拉里登山”
- Dutch: “Clariden”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جبل كلاردين”
- French: “montagne de Clariden”
- French: “Montagne de Clariden”
- Georgian: “კლარიდენი”
- German: “Clariden”
- Italian: “Clariden”
- Ladin: “Clariden”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Clariden”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Clariden”
- Norwegian: “Clariden”
- Persian: “کلاریدن”
- Polish: “Clariden”
- Spanish: “Clariden”
- Swedish: “Clariden”
- Venetian: “Clariden”
- Western Panjabi: “کلاریڈن”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Claridenjoch and Claridenhorn.
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