page_title: Maroggia
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Maroggia / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Beschreibung: Fotografie vom Bahnhof Maroggia-Melano Quelle: eigen Fotograf: Christian Heimann
context_page_description: Maroggia is a municipality in the district of Lugano in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland.
context_section_description: Maroggia has an area, as of 1997, of 1 square kilometer (0.39 sq mi).  Of this area, 0.2 km² (0.077 sq mi) or 20.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.58 km² (0.22 sq mi) or 58.0% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.33 km² (0.13 sq mi) or 33.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.01 km² (2.5 acres) or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes.
  Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.0% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 16.0% and transportation infrastructure made up 11.0%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 3.0%.  Out of the forested land, 53.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 5.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 4.0% is used for growing crops and 16.0% is used for alpine pastures.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  The municipality is located in the Lugano district, on the eastern bank of Lake Lugano.
caption: Train station of Maroggia-Melano
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