page_title: Les Verrières
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Les Verrières / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: View on Les Verrières (NE), Switzerland
context_page_description: Les Verrières is a municipality in the district of Val-de-Travers in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Les Verrières has an area, as of 2009, of 28.7 square kilometers (11.1 sq mi).  Of this area, 13.18 km² (5.09 sq mi) or 46.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 14.53 km² (5.61 sq mi) or 50.7% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.95 km² (0.37 sq mi) or 3.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and 0.12 km² (30 acres) or 0.4% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.6%.  Out of the forested land, 46.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 1.2% is used for growing crops and 22.8% is pastures and 22.0% is used for alpine pastures.
  The municipality is located in the Val-de-Travers district.  The main settlement is a linear village that is about 3 km (1.9 mi) long and consists of the villages of Cret, Belle Perche, Grand Bourgeau, Croix-Blanche and Meudon.  Outside the main village, there are the hamlets of Cernets and Mont-des-Verrières and scattered settlements over an elevation of 910 to 1,286 m (2,986 to 4,219 ft) above sea level.
caption: A village in Les Verrières
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