page_title: Guttannen
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Guttannen / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Staumauer Räterichsbodensee mit dem Mélisande-Bild
context_page_description: Guttannen is a municipality in the Interlaken-Oberhasli administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Guttannen lies in the Bernese Oberland near Grimsel Pass. It is the highest settlement in the Haslital, and the municipality encompasses the upper stretches of that valley as far as the summit of the Grimsel Pass. The adjacent municipalities from the north clockwise are Innertkirchen, Obergoms, Münster-Geschinen, Fieschertal and Grindelwald.
  The Aare springs from glaciers in Guttannen. There are four lakes in the municipality: Lake Oberaar, Lake Grimsel, Lake Räterichsboden and Lake Gelmer. In the western part of the municipality are the mountains Schreckhorn, Lauteraarhorn, Finsteraarhorn, Agassizhorn and Sidelhorn. Guttannen also includes Finsteraar Glacier, Lauteraar Glacier, Unteraar Glacier, Grueben Glacier, and Bächli Glacier.
  By Swiss standards, the municipality is large in area; by comparison it is larger than the entire Canton of Appenzell Innerrhoden. In elevation it stretches from the valley floor which is between 800–1,300 m (2,600–4,300 ft) into the high alpine peaks of the Finsteraarhorn group.
  Guttannen has an area of 200.85 km² (77.55 sq mi).  As of 2012, a total of 7.67 km² (2.96 sq mi) or 3.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 18.77 km² (7.25 sq mi) or 9.3% is forested.   The rest of the municipality is 0.98 km² (0.38 sq mi) or 0.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 7.45 km² (2.88 sq mi) or 3.7% is either rivers or lakes and 165.86 km² (64.04 sq mi) or 82.6% is unproductive land.
  During the same year, housing and buildings made up 0.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.3%.  All of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests.  Of the agricultural land, and 2.9% is used for alpine pastures.  Of the water in the municipality, 3.0% is in lakes and 0.7% is in rivers and streams.  Of the unproductive areas, 13.7% is unproductive vegetation, 45.6% is too rocky for vegetation and 23.3% of the land is covered by glaciers.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Oberhasli, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.  On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Interlaken-Oberhasli.
caption: Lake Räterichsboden dam
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