page_title: Bas-Vully
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Bas-Vully / Geography
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Vue du Pays des Trois Lacs depuis le mont Vully.Italiano: Il Seeland visto dal monte Vully.Deutsch: Der Seeland von Mont Vully
context_page_description: Bas-Vully is a former municipality in the district of See in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2016 the former municipalities of Bas-Vully and Haut-Vully merged to form Mont-Vully.
context_section_description: Bas-Vully had an area, as of 2009, of 10 square kilometers (3.9 sq mi).  Of this area, 6.98 km² (2.69 sq mi) or 70.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.25 km² (0.48 sq mi) or 12.6% is forested.   Of the rest of the land, 1.37 km² (0.53 sq mi) or 13.8% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.29 km² (0.11 sq mi) or 2.9% is either rivers or lakes and 0.06 km² (15 acres) or 0.6% is unproductive land.
  Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 6.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.5%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 2.1%.  Out of the forested land, 11.1% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees.  Of the agricultural land, 53.7% is used for growing crops and  9.9% is pastures, while 6.5% is used for orchards or vine crops.  All the water in the municipality is flowing water.
  The former municipality is located in the See/Lac district, at the foot of Mont Vully.  It consists of the hamlets of Praz, Nant, Sugiez and the abandoned settlement of Chaumont.  Bas-Vully is located 3.5 km (2.2 mi) to the north of Murten.  The three villages of Suigez, Nant and Praz, due to their close proximity, now form a single urban area. The municipality extends from the north shore of Lake Murten to the foot of Mount Vully.
  The Broye Canal, linking Lake Murten to Lake Neuchâtel, passes through the town.
caption: View from Mont Vully over the surrounding landscape
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "", "Image Make": "NIKON", "Image Model": "COOLPIX P80", "Image Orientation": "Horizontal (normal)", "Image XResolution": "300", "Image YResolution": "300", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "COOLPIX P80V1.1", "Image DateTime": "2009:08:10 12:43:25", "Image YCbCrPositioning": "Co-sited", "Image ExifOffset": "266", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "300", "Thumbnail YResolution": "300", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "8692", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "3534", "EXIF ExposureTime": "2/593", "EXIF FNumber": "71/10", "EXIF ExposureProgram": "Program Normal", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "64", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0220", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2009:08:10 12:43:25", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2009:08:10 12:43:25", "EXIF ComponentsConfiguration": "YCbCr", "EXIF CompressedBitsPerPixel": "4", "EXIF ExposureBiasValue": "0", "EXIF MaxApertureValue": "3", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Partial", "EXIF LightSource": "Unknown", "EXIF Flash": "Flash did not fire, compulsory flash mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "47/10", "EXIF FlashPixVersion": "0100", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "3264", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2448", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "R98", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "1008", "EXIF FileSource": "Digital Camera", "EXIF SceneType": "Directly Photographed", "EXIF CustomRendered": "Normal", "EXIF ExposureMode": "Auto Exposure", "EXIF WhiteBalance": "Auto", "EXIF DigitalZoomRatio": "0", "EXIF FocalLengthIn35mmFilm": "27", "EXIF SceneCaptureType": "Standard", "EXIF GainControl": "None", "EXIF Contrast": "Normal", "EXIF Saturation": "Normal", "EXIF Sharpness": "Normal", "EXIF SubjectDistanceRange": "0"}