Moesa District
Moesa
Distretto di Moesa | |
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District | |
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Canton | ![]() |
Capital | Roveredo |
Area | |
• Total | 473.74 km2 (182.91 sq mi) |
Population (December 2015) | |
• Total | 8,125 |
• Density | 17/km2 (44/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
Municipalities | 14 |
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Moesa District, often referred to as Moesano, is a former administrative district in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It had an official language of Italian, a population of 8,125 in 2015, and an area of 473.74 km2 (182.91 sq mi), corresponding to the Mesolcina valley along the eponymous Moesa River.
On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Arvigo, Braggio, Selma and Cauco merged to form the new municipality of Calanca.[1]
The Moesa District was replaced with the Moesa Region on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the canton.[2]
Municipalities
It consisted of three Kreise (circles) and fourteen municipalities:
Municipality | Population (31 December 2020)[3] | Area (km2) |
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Buseno | 91 | 11.26 |
Calanca | 201 | 37.72 |
Castaneda | 278 | 3.94 |
Rossa | 151 | 58.93 |
Santa Maria in Calanca | 115 | 9.32 |
Municipality | Population (31 December 2020)[3] |
Area (km2) |
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Lostallo | 840 | 50.91 |
Mesocco | 1,323 | 164.76 |
Soazza | 324 | 46.37 |
Municipality | Population (31 December 2020)[3] |
Area (km2) |
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Cama | 589 | 15.06 |
Grono | 1,397 | 14.83 |
Leggia | 138 | 9.15 |
Roveredo | 2,597 | 38.78 |
San Vittore | 864 | 22.03 |
Verdabbio | 163 | 13.11 |
Languages
The official language of Moesa is Italian, traditionally the Western Lombard dialect spoken by the native population.
Languages | Census 2000 | |
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Number | Percent | |
German | 528 | 7.1% |
Romansh | 10 | 0.1% |
Italian | 6,578 | 88.0% |
TOTAL | 7,471 | 100% |
References
- ^ Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz published by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office (in German) accessed 2 January 2013
- ^ Swiss Federal Statistical Office - Amtliches Gemeindeverzeichnis der Schweiz - Mutationsmeldungen 2016 accessed 16 February 2017
- ^ a b c "Ständige und nichtständige Wohnbevölkerung nach institutionellen Gliederungen, Geburtsort und Staatsangehörigkeit". bfs.admin.ch (in German). Swiss Federal Statistical Office - STAT-TAB. 31 December 2020. Retrieved 21 September 2021.
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