| Subject Name: | Ferrera |
| Municipality Type: | municipality |
| Imagepath Coa: | CHE Ferrera COA.svg |
| Canton: | Graubünden |
| Iso-Code-Region: | CH-GR |
| Coordinates: | 46.55°N 35°W |
| Postal Code: | 7444 |
| Municipality Code: | 3713 |
| Area: | 75.46 |
| Elevation: | 1316 |
| Website: | www.ferrera.ch |
Ferrera is a municipality in the Viamala Region in the Grisons, Switzerland. It was formed on 1 January 2008 through the merger of Innerferrera and Ausserferrera. Geographically, it covers the entire Ferrera valley.
The combined historical population of the two municipalities is given in the following table:
| year | population |
|---|---|
| 1808 | 167 |
| 1850 | 273 |
| 1900 | 162 |
| 1950 | 145 |
| 1960 | 405 |
| 2000 | 96 |
Population increase due to construction of the dam at Valle di Lei
| Languages | Census of 1980 | Census of 1990 | Census of 2000 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | ||||||||
| align=right | 79 | align=right | 69.30% | align=right | 75 | align=right | 75.76% | align=right | 90 | align=right | 91.84% | ||
| align=right | 33 | align=right | 28.95% | align=right | 21 | align=right | 21.21% | align=right | 1 | align=right | 1.02% | ||
| align=right | 0 | align=right | 0.00% | align=right | 2 | align=right | 2.02% | align=right | 3 | align=right | 3.37% | ||
| Population | align=right | 114 | align=right | 100% | align=right | 99 | align=right | 100% | align=right | 98 | align=right | 100% | |
| Languages | Census of 1980 | Census of 1990 | Census of 2000 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | ||||||||
| align=right | 29 | align=right | 58.00% | align=right | 28 | align=right | 58.33% | align=right | 44 | align=right | 93.62% | ||
| align=right | 19 | align=right | 38.00% | align=right | 17 | align=right | 35.42% | align=right | 1 | align=right | 2.13% | ||
| align=right | 0 | align=right | 0.00% | align=right | 2 | align=right | 4.17% | align=right | 1 | align=right | 2.13% | ||
| Population | align=right | 50 | align=right | 100% | align=right | 48 | align=right | 100% | align=right | 47 | align=right | 100% | |
| Languages | Census of 1980 | Census of 1990 | Census of 2000 | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | Number | Percentage | ||||||||
| align=right | 50 | align=right | 78.13% | align=right | 47 | align=right | 92.16% | align=right | 46 | align=right | 94.0% | ||
| align=right | 14 | align=right | 21.88% | align=right | 4 | align=right | 7.84% | align=right | 2 | align=right | 6.0% | ||
| Population | align=right | 64 | align=right | 100% | align=right | 51 | align=right | 100% | align=right | 49 | align=right | 100% | |
Innerferrera village in Ferrera has an average of 118.2 days of rain per year and on average receives 1238mm of precipitation. The wettest month is August during which time Innerferrera receives an average of 158mm of precipitation. During this month there is precipitation for an average of 12.2 days. The month with the most days of precipitation is May, with an average of 13.3, but with only 141mm of precipitation. The driest month of the year is February with an average of 44mm of precipitation over 12.2 days.[1]