page_title: Bauma
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Bauma / Geography
caption_attribution_description: de:Töss (Fluss) bei Bauma
context_page_description: Bauma is a municipality in the district of Pfäffikon in the canton of Zurich in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Following the 2015 merger, Bauma had a total area of 29.53 km² (11.40 sq mi).  Before the merger Bauma had an area of 20.8 km² (8.0 sq mi).  Of this area, 35.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 54.4% is forested.  Of the rest of the land, 8.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (1.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).  In 1996 housing and buildings made up 6% of the total area, while transportation infrastructure made up the rest (2.7%).  Of the total unproductive area, water (streams and lakes) made up 1.1% of the area.  As of 2007 6.9% of the total municipal area was undergoing some type of construction.
  Bauma is situated in the upper Töss Valley at the foot of the Hörnli ridge.  It consists of two sections Bauma and Saland and about 80 hamlets and individual houses scattered throughout the valley and hillside.
  The localities within the municipality besides the villages of Bauma and Saland include the formerly independent village of Hörnen (first mentioned in 869 as Huornomarcha),
  Altlandenberg, Juckern, Blitterswil,  Dillhaus, Undalen, Blitterswil, Bliggenswil, Wolfensberg, Wellenau,  Lipperschwendi, Laubberg and Schindlet.
caption: River Töss in Bauma
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