page_title: Eriswil
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Eriswil / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Langete at Eriswil, canton of Bern, Switzerland Esperanto: Langete en Eriswil, Kantono Berno, Svislando Deutsch: Langete in Eriswil, Kanton Bern, Schweiz
context_page_description: Eriswil is a municipality in the Emmental administrative district in the Swiss canton of Bern.
context_section_description: Eriswil has an area of 11.34 km² (4.38 sq mi).  As of the 2006 survey, a total of 7.61 km² (2.94 sq mi) or 67.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 2.97 km² (1.15 sq mi) or 26.1% is forested.   Of rest of the municipality 0.73 km² (0.28 sq mi) or 6.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 0.1% is unproductive land.
  From the same survey, housing and buildings made up 3.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.0%.  A total of 22.7% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 17.0% is used for growing crops and  46.7% is pasturage, while 2.6% is used for orchards or vine crops.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  The municipality is located in part of the Emmental.  It includes the village of Eriswil, the Gütergemeinden Vorder- and Hinterdorf, and the hamlets of Neuligen and Schwendi.  Schwendi joined the municipality in 1888-89 following a survey of the border with Wyssachen.
  On 31 December 2009 Amtsbezirk Trachselwald, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.  On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Verwaltungskreis Oberaargau.
caption: Langete river at Eriswil
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