page_title: Vouvry
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Vouvry / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Canal Stockalper (on the left) as seen between Vouvry and Les Evouettes (Valais / Switzerland). It was dug between 1651 and 1659 to transport salt from Collombey to the Bouveret (on the shores of Lake Geneva). It is named after Kaspar Jodok von Stockalper, a rich swiss merchant of the 17th century.
context_page_description: Vouvry is a municipality in the district of Monthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Vouvry has an area, as of 2009, of 33.5 square kilometers (12.9 sq mi).  Of this area, 12.13 km² (4.68 sq mi) or 36.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 12.88 km² (4.97 sq mi) or 38.4% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 1.97 km² (0.76 sq mi) or 5.9% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.45 km² (0.17 sq mi) or 1.3% is either rivers or lakes and 6.05 km² (2.34 sq mi) or 18.1% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.8%.  Out of the forested land, 34.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 12.4% is used for growing crops and 2.2% is pastures and 20.5% is used for alpine pastures.  Of the water in the municipality, 0.4% is in lakes and 0.9% is in rivers and streams.  Of the unproductive areas, 9.2% is unproductive vegetation and 8.8% is too rocky for vegetation.
  The municipality includes the village of Vouvry as well as Porte du Scex along the Rhône river and the villages of Miex and Taney on the slopes of Le Grammont.
caption: Stockalper canal between Vouvry and Les Évouettes
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