page_title: Oberems
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Oberems / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Gruben im Turtmanntal
context_page_description: Oberems is a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Oberems has an area, as of 2011, of 84.6 square kilometers (32.7 sq mi).  Of this area, 15.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while 13.5% is forested.  Of the rest of the land, 0.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and 70.8% is unproductive land.
  The municipality is located in the Leuk district, on a terrace above the entrance to the Turtmann valley into the Rhone valley.  It consists of the villages of Ahorn and Bodmen and several scattered hamlets, such as Gruben/Meiden.
caption: Mine in the Turtmann valley
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