page_title: Bürglen, Uri
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Bürglen, Uri / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Riedertal chapel, Uri, Switzerland
context_page_description: Bürglen is a municipality in the canton of Uri in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Bürglen has an area, as of 2006, of 53.1 km² (20.5 sq mi).  Of this area, 51.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 19.9% is forested.  Of the rest of the land, 2.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (26.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).  In the 1997 land survey, 15.0% of the total land area was heavily forested, while 1.2% is covered in small trees and shrubbery.  Of the agricultural land, 0.2% is used for farming or pastures, while 13.2% is used for orchards or vine crops and 38.1% is used for alpine pastures.  Of the settled areas, 1.0% is covered with buildings, 0.2% is industrial, and 0.9% is transportation infrastructure.  Of the unproductive areas, 0.1% is unproductive standing water (ponds or lakes), 0.8% is unproductive flowing water (rivers), 12.5% is too rocky for vegetation,  and 13.2% is other unproductive land.
  The municipality is located south east of Altdorf at the entrance of the Schächental valley.  The village is at the start of the road over the pass Klausenpass, which connects Uri and Glarus.  It consists of the village center of Bürglen which is located above the left bank of the Schächen river, and scattered settlements which stretch from the valley floor up the mountains to an elevation of about 1,700 m (5,600 ft).
caption: Chapel in the Rieder valley, which is part of Bürglen
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