Gryon is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle.
Gryon is first mentioned in 1189 as Griuns.
Gryon has an area, as of 2009, of 15.22 square kilometers (5.88 sq mi). Of this area, 4.31 km (1.66 sq mi) or 28.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 7.96 km (3.07 sq mi) or 52.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.71 km (0.66 sq mi) or 11.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.07 km (17 acres) or ...
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Gryon is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle.
Gryon is first mentioned in 1189 as Griuns.
Gryon has an area, as of 2009, of 15.22 square kilometers (5.88 sq mi). Of this area, 4.31 km (1.66 sq mi) or 28.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 7.96 km (3.07 sq mi) or 52.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.71 km (0.66 sq mi) or 11.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.07 km (17 acres) or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and 1.19 km (0.46 sq mi) or 7.8% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. Out of the forested land, 42.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.0% is used for growing crops and 7.0% is pastures and 21.3% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 4.3% is unproductive...
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