Le Vaud

Geography

Le Vaud has an area, , of . Of this area, or 50.8% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 29.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 19.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 14.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.2%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.6% of the area Out of the forested land, 27.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.3% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 27.3% is used for growing crops and 20.3% is pastures and 2.6% is used for alpine pastures.

Most-observed species

• gray wolf

  Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758 · Mammalia
  6,042
• Yellow-legged hornet

  Vespa velutina Lepeletier, 1836 · Insecta
  4,500
• European roe deer

  Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  2,988
• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  2,974
• red fox

  Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  2,844
• Small Heath

  Coenonympha pamphilus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  2,516
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,210
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  2,179

Most recent

• M 3.6 — 2026-01-12
  4 km SSW of Les Houches, France
• M 3.3 — 2022-09-25
  7 km ESE of Ar?ches-la-Frasse, France
• M 4.5 — 2022-03-12
  3 km S of Faverges, France
• M 3.4 — 2020-06-23
  11 km ESE of Samoëns, France
• M 4.1 — 2017-07-01
  7 km E of Châtel-Saint-Denis, Switzerland
• M 4.1 — 2016-12-03
  2 km SE of Damparis, France