page_title: Varen, Switzerland
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Varen, Switzerland / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vue sur Varen / Varonne de l'autre côté du Valais Deutsch: Blick auf Varen von der anderen Talseite des Wallis.
context_page_description: Varen is a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Varen has an area, as of 2009, of 12.8 square kilometers (4.9 sq mi).  Of this area, 4.06 km² (1.57 sq mi) or 31.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.35 km² (1.68 sq mi) or 34.0% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.51 km² (0.20 sq mi) or 4.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.17 km² (0.066 sq mi) or 1.3% is either rivers or lakes and 3.67 km² (1.42 sq mi) or 28.6% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.0%.  Out of the forested land, 30.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.7% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 0.1% is used for growing crops and 1.6% is pastures, while 9.3% is used for orchards or vine crops and 20.7% is used for alpine pastures.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.  Of the unproductive areas, 9.8% is unproductive vegetation and 18.9% is too rocky for vegetation.
  The municipality is located in the Leuk district, on the right slope of the Rhone above the Pfynwald (Pfyn woods).
caption: Varen
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