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Icogne
Valaisvillage
Icogne
Total population
561
Demographic figures from Swiss Federal Statistical Office. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.
City facts
Facts from Wikidata (CC0).
Overview
Icogne is a municipality in the district of Sierre in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
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History
Icogne is first mentioned in 1233 as Ucogni. In 1249 it was mentioned as Ucogniez.
Geography
Icogne has an area, , of . Of this area, or 14.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 31.0% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 2.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 2.3% is either rivers or lakes and or 50.4% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 0.8%. Out of the forested land, 27.2% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.2% is used for growing crops and 3.4% is pastures and 10.8% is used for alpine pastures. Of the water in the municipality, 1.5% is in lakes and 0.8% is in rivers and streams. Of the unproductive areas, 12.0% is unproductive vegetation and 37.6% is too rocky for vegetation. The reservoir Lac de Tseuzier is located on the border with Ayent.
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Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.
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Official Identifiers
BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office
- BFS-Nr
- 6239
- Population (Wikidata)
- 565
- Wikidata
- Q69535
Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771
Sources
- • Wikipedia
- • Wikidata
- • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
- • Wikipedia Pageviews API
- • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771