page_title: Effingen
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Effingen / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Effingen AG, Switzerland
context_page_description: Effingen is a municipality in the district of Brugg in canton of Aargau in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Effingen has an area, as of 2006, of 6.85 square kilometers (2.64 sq mi).  Of this area, 2.98 square kilometers (1.15 sq mi) or 43.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while3.23 square kilometers (1.25 sq mi) or 47.2% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.58 square kilometers (0.22 sq mi) or 8.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.05 km² (12 acres) or 0.7% is either rivers or lakes and 0.03 km² (7.4 acres) or 0.4% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.8%.  46.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 21.5% is used for growing crops and 20.4% is pastures, while 1.6% is used for orchards or vine crops.  All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.
  The municipality is located in the Brugg district on the western flank of the Bözberg.  It consists of the linear village of Effingen and the hamlet of Chästel as well as scattered individual farm houses.
  The municipalities of Bözen, Effingen, Elfingen, Hornussen and Zeihen are considering a merger some time in the future into a new municipality with an as yet (as of 2010) undetermined name.
caption: Effingen
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