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Engadin

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The Engadin is a long, high Alpine valley in the canton of Graubünden in southeastern Switzerland, running about 100 kilometers before the Inn River, which drains the valley, crosses into Austria on its way to the Danube and the Black Sea. Its formation is linked to the Engadine Line, a geological fault, and the Lower Engadine in particular shows steep slopes and broad terraces carved by glaciers and rivers over time. The valley sits consistently above 1,000 meters and is enclosed by high mountain ranges on all sides, giving it an unusually sunny climate for an Alpine region. Around 25,000 people live in the valley, which is divided into the Upper and Lower Engadine, sections with distinct landscapes shaped by differing glacial and river action. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Wikidata P31 formation-type mapped to discipline Geomorphology via reviewed judgment map (earth atlas); source citation is this entity's own cited Wikidata item.

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Engadin (Wikipedia)
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The Engadin or Engadine (Romansh: Engiadina [eɲdʑɐˈdiːnɐ] ; German: Engadin [ˈɛŋɡadiːn] or [ɛŋɡaˈdiːn] ; Italian: Engadina; French: Engadine) is a long high Alpine valley region in the eastern Swiss Alps in the canton of Graubünden in southeasternmost Switzerland with about 25,000 inhabitants.
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