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Brigels is a municipality in the district of Surselva in
the Swiss canton of Graubünden. The name of the
municipality comes from the word brigilo, meaning little
town. The name comes from the village name in the two
local languages. In Romansh the name is Breil while in
German it is Brigels. It is known as a ski resort.
Surselva District is an administrative district in the
canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has an area of
1,373.39 km2 (530.27 sq mi) and has a population of
21,777 (as of 31 December 2010). The Surselva
encompasses the valley of the Vorderrhein and all its
side valleys, from the source near the Oberalppass all
the way down towards Reichenau (where the Vorderrhein
joins the Hinterrhein to form the Rhine). The district
ends before that confluence at the huge forest on the
giant debris of Flims Rockslide that is responsible for
the name of the region: The debris area lack of water
and soil and were ever left as a big forest as it was
useless for farming. This forest (romonsch: selva) is
the border for "Sur-selva" (meaning "above the forest").
The Surselva is one of the few areas in Switzerland that
is mainly Romansh-speaking (another notable valley being
the Engadin, the valley of the Inn). There are a few
German-speaking communities in the Surselva, two notable
ones being Obersaxen and Vals, which were founded in the
thirteenth century by the Walser. |
