Official Name: | Moesa |
Native Name: | Distretto di Moesa |
Settlement Type: | District |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type2: | Canton |
Subdivision Type3: | Capital |
Subdivision Name3: | Roveredo |
Area Total Km2: | 473.74 |
Population As Of: | December 2015 |
Population Total: | 8125 |
Population Density Km2: | auto |
Timezone: | CET |
Utc Offset: | +1 |
Timezone Dst: | CEST |
Utc Offset Dst: | +2 |
Blank Name Sec1: | Municipalities |
Blank Info Sec1: | 14 |
Moesa District, often referred to as Moesano, is a former administrative district in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It had an official language of Italian, a population of 8,125 in 2015, and an area of 473.74km2, corresponding to the Mesolcina valley along the eponymous Moesa River.
On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Arvigo, Braggio, Selma and Cauco merged to form the new municipality of Calanca.[1]
The Moesa District was replaced with the Moesa Region on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the canton.[2]
It consisted of three Kreise (circles) and fourteen municipalities:
Municipality | Population | Area (km2) | |
---|---|---|---|
11.26 | |||
Calanca | |||
3.94 | |||
58.93 | |||
9.32 |
Municipality | Population | Area (km2) | |
---|---|---|---|
50.91 | |||
Mesocco | 164.76 | ||
46.37 |
Municipality | Population | Area (km2) | |
---|---|---|---|
15.06 | |||
14.83 | |||
9.15 | |||
Roveredo | 38.78 | ||
22.03 | |||
13.11 |
The official language of Moesa is Italian, traditionally the Western Lombard dialect spoken by the native population.
Languages | Census 2000 | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Number | Percent | ||||
align=right | 528 | align=right | 7.1% | ||
align=right | 10 | align=right | 0.1% | ||
align=right | 6,578 | align=right | 88.0% | ||
TOTAL | align=right | 7,471 | align=right | 100% |