page_title: Malleray
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Malleray / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Une vue sur Malleray depuis des pâturages de la commune de Pontenet
context_page_description: Malleray is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Bévilard, Malleray and Pontenet merged to form the new municipality of Valbirse.
context_section_description: Before the merger, Malleray had a total area of 10.2 km² (3.9 sq mi).  As of 2012, a total of 4.88 km² (1.88 sq mi) or 47.6% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.37 km² (1.69 sq mi) or 42.6% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.93 km² (0.36 sq mi) or 9.1% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02 km² (4.9 acres) or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes.
  During the same year, housing and buildings made up 5.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.5%.  Out of the forested land, 37.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 12.8% is used for growing crops and  11.7% is pastures and 22.8% is used for alpine pastures.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  The municipality is located in the Vallée de Tavannes (Tavannes Valley) on the banks of the Birs River.
  On 31 December 2009 District de Moutier, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.  On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Arrondissement administratif Jura bernois.
caption: Malleray valley near the municipality
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