page_title: Collonge-Bellerive
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Collonge-Bellerive / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Tree in rape field, Collonge-Bellerive, Geneva, Switzerland
context_page_description: Collonge-Bellerive is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.
context_section_description: Collonge-Bellerive has an area, as of 2009, of 6.12 square kilometers (2.36 sq mi).  Of this area, 2.27 km² (0.88 sq mi) or 37.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.25 km² (0.097 sq mi) or 4.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 3.58 km² (1.38 sq mi) or 58.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and 0.02 km² (4.9 acres) or 0.3% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.3% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 45.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.7%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 2.8%.  Out of the forested land, 2.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 21.4% is used for growing crops and 2.0% is pastures, while 13.7% is used for orchards or vine crops.  All the water in the municipality is in lakes.
  It is situated on the left bank of Lake Geneva. Surrounded by the municipalities of Cologny, Vandœuvres, Choulex, Meinier, and Corsier, Collonge-Bellerive consists primarily of the villages of Collonge, Vésenaz and Saint-Maurice together with the hamlets of Cherre, Bellerive, La Repentance and La Capite.
  The municipality of Collonge-Bellerive consists of the sub-sections or villages of Bellerive, Collonge, La Gabiule, Saint-Maurice, La Pallanterie, La Californie, Vésenaz – lac, Vésenaz – village and La Combe.
caption: Tree and fields outside Collonge-Bellerive
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