page_title: Ormont-Dessous
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Ormont-Dessous / Geography
context_page_description: Ormont-Dessous is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle.
context_section_description: Ormont-Dessous has an area, as of 2009, of 64.07 square kilometers (24.74 sq mi).  Of this area, 24.93 km² (9.63 sq mi) or 38.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 29.07 km² (11.22 sq mi) or 45.4% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 2.05 km² (0.79 sq mi) or 3.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 1.26 km² (0.49 sq mi) or 2.0% is either rivers or lakes and 6.71 km² (2.59 sq mi) or 10.5% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.7%.  Out of the forested land, 37.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.8% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 0.0% is used for growing crops and 10.6% is pastures and 28.3% is used for alpine pastures.  Of the water in the municipality, 1.8% is in lakes and 0.2% is in rivers and streams.  Of the unproductive areas, 7.2% is unproductive vegetation and 3.2% is too rocky for vegetation.
  The municipality is located in the Aigle district, in the middle of the Grande-Eau valley.  It consists of the villages of Ormont, Dessous, Le Sépey and La Forclaz as well as scattered settlements at Cergnat, Matélon, La Comballaz and Les Voëttes.
caption: Ormont-Dessous/Dessus seen from Valais
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