page_title: Sils im Engadin/Segl
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Sils im Engadin/Segl / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Localité de Sils et son lac (cliché 13.07.2003) English: Sils and Lake Sils Deutsch: Sils im Engadin und Silsersee Rumantsch: Segl e Lej da Segl
context_page_description: Sils im Engadin/Segl, often also as Sils i.E./Segl, is a municipality and a village in the Maloja Region, Upper Engadine in the Swiss canton of the Grisons.
  The municipality consists of two villages Segl Maria and Segl Baselgia, the Val Fex, and the three Maiensässe Grevasalvas, Blaunca and Buaira above Plaun da Lej on the left side of the valley.
context_section_description: Located in the valley of Upper Engadine, Sils i.E./Segl nestles between Lake Sils and Lake Silvaplana at the foot of Piz Corvatsch and Piz da la Margna and below the Val Fex, a valley in the south. The municipality belongs to the Maloja District.
  Sils im Engadin/Segl has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of 63.58 km² (24.55 sq mi).  Of this area, about 25.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 11.1% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 1.2% is settled (buildings or roads) and 61.7% is unproductive land.  In the 2004/09 survey a total of 38 ha (94 acres) or about 0.6% of the total area was covered with buildings, an increase of 5 ha (12 acres) over the 1985 amount.  Over the same time period, the amount of recreational space in the municipality increased by 6 ha (15 acres) and is now about 0.16% of the total area.  Of the agricultural land, 307 ha (760 acres) is fields and grasslands and 1,435 ha (3,550 acres) consists of alpine grazing areas.  Since 1985 the amount of agricultural land has decreased by 119 ha (290 acres).  At the same time the amount of forested land has increased by 117 ha (290 acres).  Rivers and lakes cover 404 ha (1,000 acres) in the municipality.
  The plain is cultivated in grass, the steep slopes are heavily forested.
caption: Sils and Lake Sils
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