page_title: Saicourt
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Saicourt / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Blick auf Bellelay
context_page_description: Saicourt is a municipality in the Jura bernois administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. It comprises the localities of Le Fuet, Bellelay, La Bottiere and Montbautier. It is located in the French-speaking Bernese Jura.
context_section_description: Saicourt has an area of 13.77 km² (5.32 sq mi).  As of 2012, a total of 6.17 km² (2.38 sq mi) or 44.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while 6.89 km² (2.66 sq mi) or 50.0% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 0.6 km² (0.23 sq mi) or 4.4% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.02 km² (4.9 acres) or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes and 0.12 km² (30 acres) or 0.9% is unproductive land.
  During the same year, housing and buildings made up 2.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.5%.  Out of the forested land, 46.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 4.1% is used for growing crops and  32.8% is pastures and 7.6% is used for alpine pastures.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  The municipality is located in the Trame, Le Fuet and Bellelay valleys.  It consists of the village of Saicourt and the hamlets of La Bottière and Montbautier.
  On 31 December 2009 District de Moutier, the municipality's former district, was dissolved.  On the following day, 1 January 2010, it joined the newly created Arrondissement administratif Jura bernois.
caption: Bellelay village and surrounding hills
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