page_title: Madulain
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Madulain / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Madulain in winter 2005 (3)
context_page_description: Madulain is a municipality in the Maloja Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden.
context_section_description: Madulain has an area, (as of the 2004/09 survey) of 16.28 km² (6.29 sq mi).  Of this area, about 30.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 14.5% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 2.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and 52.2% is unproductive land.  In the 2004/09 survey a total of 13 ha (32 acres) or about 0.8% of the total area was covered with buildings, an increase of 6 ha (15 acres) over the 1985 amount.  Over the same time period, the amount of recreational space in the municipality increased by 14 ha (35 acres) and is now about 0.98% of the total area.  Of the agricultural land, 74 ha (180 acres) is fields and grasslands and 473 ha (1,170 acres) consists of alpine grazing areas.  Since 1985 the amount of agricultural land has decreased by 45 ha (110 acres).  Over the same time period the amount of forested land has increased by 9 ha (22 acres).  Rivers and lakes cover 23 ha (57 acres) in the municipality.
  Before 2017, the municipality was located in the Oberengadin sub-district of the Maloja district, after 2017 it was part of the Maloja Region.  It is the smallest of the eleven municipalities in the district. It is located in the upper Engadin valley between La Punt-Chamues-ch and Zuoz about 15 minutes from St. Moritz on the Inn River.  It consists of the Haufendorf village (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) of Madulain on the Inn at an elevation of 1,684 m (5,525 ft).  Until 1943 Madulain was known as Madulein.
caption: Madulain in the winter
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