page_title: Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Saint-Légier village in Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz, Vaud, Switzerland Français&#160;: Saint-Légier. Vue vers les Dents du Midi.
context_page_description: Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz is a municipality in the district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz has an area, as of 2009, of 15.2 square kilometers (5.9 sq mi).  Of this area, 5.16 km² (1.99 sq mi) or 34.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 6.88 km² (2.66 sq mi) or 45.4% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 2.93 km² (1.13 sq mi) or 19.3% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.13 km² (32 acres) or 0.9% is either rivers or lakes and 0.14 km² (35 acres) or 0.9% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 7.8% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 48.7% and transportation infrastructure made up 34.2%.  Out of the forested land, 96.7% of the land area is heavily forested and 3.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 25.6% is used for growing crops and 45.9% is pastures, while 4.4% is used for orchards or vine crops and 24.4% is used for alpine pastures.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  The municipality was part of the Vevey District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz became part of the new district of Riviera-Pays-d'Enhaut.
  It consists of the villages of Saint-Légier and La Chiésaz along with a number of hamlets.
caption: View over Saint-Légier-La Chiésaz toward the Alps
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