Splügen Pass
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mountain pass between Switzerland and Italy
Key facts
- Elevation
- 2,114 m (6,936 ft)
- Traversed by
- Road
- Location
- Lombardy , Italy Graubünden , Switzerland
- Range
- Lepontine Alps
- Topo map
- Swiss Federal Office of Topography swisstopo
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mountain pass
- Country
- Switzerland
- Located in
- Switzerland
- Elevation
- 2113
- Image
- Splügenpass Nordseite.jpg
Show 3 more facts
- different from
- Splügen
- Commons category
- Splügen Pass
- mountain range
- Oberhalbstein Alps
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
The Splügen Pass (German: Splügenpass; Italian: Passo dello Spluga; Romansh: Pass dal Spleia 2,114 m (6,936 ft)) is an Alpine mountain pass of the Lepontine Alps. It connects the Swiss canton of Grisonian Splügen 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) to the north 675 metres (2,215 ft) below the pass with the Italian municipality of Chiavenna 21 kilometres (13 mi) to the south at the end of the Valle San Giacomo 1,789 metres (5,869 ft) below the pass.
Geography
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Splügen Pass” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.