  lavey-morcles is a municipality in switzerland in the canton of vaud, located in the district of aigle. the municipality was created in 1852 by a merger of morcles and lavey. ==history== lavey-morcles is first mentioned in 1016 as a laver. in 1189 it was mentioned as laveto and as lavey. ==geography== lavey-morcles has an area, , of . of this area,  or 18.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while  or 62.9% is forested. of the rest of the land,  or 5.1% is settled (buildings or roads),  or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes and  or 11.8% is unproductive land.swiss federal statistical office-land use statistics 2009 data  accessed 25 march 2010 of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.5%. out of the forested land, 56.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. of the agricultural land, 2.0% is used for growing crops and 3.2% is pastures and 12.9% is used for alpine pastures. all the water in the municipality is flowing water. of the unproductive areas, 5.0% is unproductive vegetation and 6.8% is too rocky for vegetation. the municipality is located in the aigle district, on the right bank of the rhone river. it was created in 1852 when lavey and morcles merged.amtliches gemeindeverzeichnis der schweiz published by the swiss federal statistical office  accessed 18 february 2011 it consists of the villages of lavey-village (across from saint-maurice), lavey-les-bains, eslex and m
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