Switzerland
Ticino
Locarno District

Tenero

Tenero is a small town located on the northern shore in , the Italian-speaking part of . It is about 4 km from .
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  • Type: Village with 3,220 residents
  • Description: municipality in the canton of Ticino, Switzerland
  • Also known as: “CH5131”, “Tenero-Contra”, and “Tenero-Contra TI”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Gordola railway station and Tenero railway station.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of , in the canton of Ticino. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Giubiasco–Locarno line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Railway station
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is a railway station in the municipality of Tenero-Contra, in the canton of Ticino. It is an intermediate stop on the standard gauge Giubiasco–Locarno line of Swiss Federal Railways.

Dam
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The , commonly known as the Verzasca Dam and the Locarno Dam, is an arch dam on the Verzasca River in the of , .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Locarno and Gordola.

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is a city at the northern end of in . The city, along with and , hosts an international film festival, the third oldest important cinema festival in the world.

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of in .

Village
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is a municipality in the district of Locarno in the canton of in .

Tenero

Latitude
46.1794° or 46° 10′ 46″ north
Longitude
8.8504° or 8° 51′ 2″ east
Population
3,220
Elevation
348 metres (1,142 feet)
Open location code
8FRC5VH2+Q5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 806507892
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
7287288
Wiki­data ID
Q67745
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Welsh—“Tenero” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Basque: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Breton: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Catalan: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Cebuano: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Chinese: “泰內羅-孔特拉”
  • Chinese: “泰内罗-孔特拉”
  • Czech: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Dutch: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Dutch: “Tenero”
  • Esperanto: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Finnish: “Tenero-Contra”
  • French: “Tenero-Contra”
  • German: “Contra TI”
  • German: “Tenero-Contra”
  • German: “Tenero”
  • Hungarian: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Irish: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Italian: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Italian: “Tenero”
  • Korean: “테네로-콘트라”
  • Lombard: “Tendru-Cuntra”
  • Lombard: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Malay: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Tenero-Contra”
  • Polish: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Portuguese: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Romansh: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Spanish: “Tenero Contra”
  • Spanish: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Swedish: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Swiss German: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Tosk Albanian: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Turkish: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Ukrainian: “Тенеро-Контра”
  • Upper Sorbian: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Venetian: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Volapük: “Tenero-Contra”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Tenero-Contra”
  • Welsh: “Tenero-Contra”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Tenero”. Photo: Parpan05, CC BY-SA 3.0.