page_title: Scuol
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Scuol / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Scuol (CH)
context_page_description: Scuol is a municipality in the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region in the Swiss canton of Grisons. The official language in Scuol is Romansh. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Ardez, Guarda, Tarasp, Ftan and Sent merged into Scuol.
context_section_description: After the 2015 merger Scuol had an area of 438.63 km² (169.36 sq mi).  Before the merger Scuol had an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of 144.14 square kilometers (55.65 sq mi).  Of this area, about 26.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 25.8% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 1.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and 46.1% is unproductive land.  Over the past two decades (1979/85-2004/09) the amount of land that is settled has increased by 37 ha (91 acres) and the agricultural land has decreased by 146 ha (360 acres).
  The whole southern face towards Piz Champatsch on 2,785 meters (9,137 ft) is being used as a skiing area called "Motta Naluns", named after a place north of Scuol. The resort has 80 kilometers of slopes and 12 lifts (aerial cableway/ chair lifts / drag lifts).
  Before 2017 it was the municipality is the capital of the Inn district and was located in the Suot Tasna sub-district, after 2017 it was part of the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region.  It is a well known spa town and vacation spot and is the business center of the Unterengadin valley.  It is the largest village on the left side of the Inn river.  It consists of the village of Scuol with the section Pradella and the old mining village of S-charl.  Until 1970 Scuol was known as Scuol/Schuls.
  The God da Tamangur ("the forest back there") is the highest continuous stone pine forest in Europe, right at the furthest end of the Val S-charl, south of Scuol. The forest nature reserve covers an area of about 84 ha (210 acres) at up to 2,400 m (7,900 ft) in elevation. Due to the altitude and weather, the trees grow very slowly and may live up to 700 years.
caption: Scuol village and valley
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