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San Carlo, Graubünden
San Carlo is a village in the Val Poschiavo in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It lies at above sea level and is in the municipality of Poschiavo, some north of the village of the same name. The village lies on the southern approach to the Bernina Pass, and at one time was responsible for the maintenance of the road over the pass. It has a parish church, known as ''San Carlo Borromeo'' and built in 1613, and a primary school. The current road to the pass, Hauptstrasse 29, passes through the village. The , which has an installed capacity of 27 MW and is fed by a pressurised pipe-line from Cavaglia, is situated some from the centre of the village. The outfall of the station is fed into the Poschiavino river. Alongside the power station is an operations centre, responsible for managing all the production facilities and networks owned by Repower Senvion S.A. (called REpower Systems SE until 2014) was a German wind turbine manufacturer founded in 2001 in Germany, m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Val Poschiavo
Val Poschiavo ( lmo, Pus'ciaf, german: Puschlav, ) is a valley in the southern, Italian-speaking part of the Swiss canton of Graubünden (Grisons). The main town is Poschiavo. Geography Val Poschiavo can be reached from the Upper Engadin valley in the north via Bernina Pass (''Passo del Bernina'') and from the Italian ''comune'' of Livigno via Livigno Pass. In the south it stretches down to the village of Campocologno at the end of the valley, bordering directly on the Italian town of Tirano. Beneath Bernina Pass, the Val da Camp mountain valley leads up to Val Viola Pass in the northeast. The valley is drained by the Poschiavino river, flowing through Lago di Poschiavo. Smaller lakes in its basin include Lago Bianco, Lago di Saoseo, and Lago di Val Viola. From north to south, the valley descends from an altitude of to , passing through different altitudinal zones. The surrounding mountains of the Bernina Range and the Livigno Alps include the Piz Palü, , Piz Cambrena, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
