page_title: Brienz/Brinzauls
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Brienz/Brinzauls / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Gedenkstelle zur Erinnerung an die Vereinigung der drei Bünde in Vazerol 1471
context_page_description: Brienz/Brinzauls is a former municipality in the district of Albula in the canton of Graubünden in Switzerland. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Alvaschein, Mon, Stierva, Tiefencastel, Alvaneu, Brienz/Brinzauls and Surava merged to form the new municipality of Albula/Alvra.
  The majority of the population is German-speaking, with a large Romansh-speaking minority.
context_section_description: Before the merger, Brienz/Brinzauls had a total area of 13.4 km² (5.2 sq mi).  Of this area, 22.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 50.8% is forested.  Of the rest of the land, 2.1% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (24.3%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).
  The village is located north of the Albula River on the road from Lenzerheide to Davos.  It is a Haufendorf (an irregular, unplanned and quite closely packed village, built around a central square) on a terrace to the north and above the Albula river
  It consists of the village of Brienz/Brinzauls and the hamlet of Vazerol at the Julier Pass.  Until 1996 Brienz/Brinzauls was known as Brienz (GR).
caption: Hillside near Vazerol, containing a memorial to the unification of the Three Leagues
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