Gimel is a municipality in the Swiss the canton Vaud, located in the district of Morges.
Gimel is first mentioned around 979-993 as Gemella.
Gimel has an area, as of 2009, of 18.89 square kilometers (7.29 sq mi). Of this area, 6.07 km (2.34 sq mi) or 32.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 11.66 km (4.50 sq mi) or 61.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.08 km (0.42 sq mi) or 5.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km (7.4 acres) o...
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Gimel is a municipality in the Swiss the canton Vaud, located in the district of Morges.
Gimel is first mentioned around 979-993 as Gemella.
Gimel has an area, as of 2009, of 18.89 square kilometers (7.29 sq mi). Of this area, 6.07 km (2.34 sq mi) or 32.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 11.66 km (4.50 sq mi) or 61.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.08 km (0.42 sq mi) or 5.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03 km (7.4 acres) or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and 0.1 km (25 acres) or 0.5% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, 60.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 20.6% is used for growing crops and 6.7% is pastures and 4.3% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
The municipality was part of the Aubonne District...
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