page_title: Sutz-Lattrigen
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Sutz-Lattrigen / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Beach near the camp ground in Sutz-Lattrigen; Berne, Switzerland. Deutsch: Strand beim Campingplatz in Sutz-Lattrigen; Bern, Schweiz.
context_page_description: Sutz-Lattrigen is a municipality in the Biel/Bienne administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is home to a number of Neolithic and Bronze Age lake shore archeological sites, including one that is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
context_section_description: Sutz-Lattrigen has an area of 3.57 km² (1.38 sq mi).  As of 2012, a total of 1.59 km² (0.61 sq mi) or 44.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.14 km² (0.44 sq mi) or 31.7% is forested.   The rest of the municipality is 0.77 km² (0.30 sq mi) or 21.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.09 km² (22 acres) or 2.5% is either rivers or lakes and 0.02 km² (4.9 acres) or 0.6% is unproductive land.
  During the same year, housing and buildings made up 11.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%.  Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.4% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 3.6%.  All of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests.  Of the agricultural land, 33.9% is used for growing crops and  5.0% is pasturage, while 5.3% is used for orchards or vine crops.  Of the water in the municipality, 1.9% is in lakes and 0.6% is in rivers and streams.
  The municipality is located on the right bank of Lake Biel.  It consists of the villages of Sutz and Lattrigen.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Nidau, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.  On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Biel/Bienne.
caption: Lake shore at Sutz-Lattrigen
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