page_title: Avers
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Avers / Geography
caption_attribution_description: English: Avers Valley, Grisons, Switzerland.
context_page_description: Avers is a high Alpine valley region and a municipality in the Viamala Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. It includes Juf, the highest-altitude year-round settlement in Europe.
context_section_description: Avers has an area, as of 2006, of 93.1 km² (35.9 sq mi).  Of this area, 50% is used for agricultural purposes, while 5.5% is forested.  Of the rest of the land, 0.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (44%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).
  The following villages are part of the municipality: Campsut (and Maxsut, 1,668 m (5,472 ft) ), Cröt (1,715 m (5,627 ft)), Cresta (1,960 m (6,430 ft)), Pürt (1,921 m (6,302 ft)), Am Bach (1,959 m (6,427 ft)), Juppa (2,004 m (6,575 ft)), Podestatsch Hus (2,046 m (6,713 ft)) and Juf (2,126 m (6,975 ft)).
  Before 2017, the municipality was located in the Hinterrhein district and is the capital and only municipality in the Avers sub-district, after 2017 it was part of the Viamala Region.  It includes the Jufer valley, the Averser branch of the Rhine as well as the side valleys of Madris and Bergalga.
caption: Avers valley
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