Lavin is a former

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in the district of

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in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Lavin and Susch merged into the municipality of

Zernez Zernez is a village and a municipality in the Engiadina Bassa/Val Müstair Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Lavin and Susch merged into the municipality of Zernez. Zernez is a major node ...

History

Lavin is first mentioned in the 12th century as ''Lawinis''.

Geography

Lavin had an area, , of . Of this area, 19.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 18.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.6% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (61.2%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). The former municipality is located in the Sur Tasna sub-district of the Inn district on the left bank of the

river. It is the capital of the sub-district. It consists of the

linear village Linearity is the property of a mathematical relationship ('' function'') that can be graphically represented as a straight line. Linearity is closely related to '' proportionality''. Examples in physics include rectilinear motion, the linear ...

of Lavin.

Demographics

Lavin had a population (as of 2014) of 221. , 8.5% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 7.2%.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 12-Oct-2009 , the gender distribution of the population was 46.9% male and 53.1% female.Graubunden in Numbers
accessed 21 September 2009 The age distribution, , in Lavin is; 18 children or 10.3% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old. 14 teenagers or 8.0% are 10 to 14, and 12 teenagers or 6.9% are 15 to 19. Of the adult population, 15 people or 8.6% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 20 people or 11.5% are 30 to 39, 25 people or 14.4% are 40 to 49, and 22 people or 12.6% are 50 to 59. The senior population distribution is 14 people or 8.0% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 25 people or 14.4% are 70 to 79, there are 7 people or 4.0% who are 80 to 89, and there are 2 people or 1.1% who are 90 to 99.Graubunden Population Statistics
accessed 21 September 2009 In the

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the most popular party was the SPS which received 46.8% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the SVP (26.1%), the FDP (15.5%) and the CVP (6.1%). The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Lavin about 87.7% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory upper secondary education or additional higher education (either university or a '' Fachhochschule''). Lavin has an unemployment rate of 0.71%. , there were 20 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 8 businesses involved in this sector. 2 people are employed in the

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and there is 1 business in this sector. 50 people are employed in the

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, with 9 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table:

Languages

Most of the population () speaks

Rhaeto-Romance Rhaeto-Romance, Rheto-Romance, or Rhaetian, is a purported subfamily of the Romance languages that is spoken in south-eastern Switzerland and north-eastern Italy. The name "Rhaeto-Romance" refers to the former Roman province of Raetia. The questi ...

(75.9%), with German being second most common (23.0%) and Portuguese being third ( 0.6%). By the 19th Century there was a German-speaking minority in Lavin. However the majority speak the

Vallader Vallader (Vallader, Sursilvan, Puter, Surmiran, and Rumantsch Grischun: ''vallader'' ; Sutsilvan: ') is a variety of the Romansh language spoken in the Lower Engadine valley (''Engiadina Bassa'') of southeast Switzerland, between Martina ...

Romansh dialect. Between 1880 and 1941 the Romansh speaking percentage remained the same (83%). In the last decades the Romansh speaking percentage has decreased. In 1990 91% of the population understood Romansh, though some spoke it as a second language, and in 2000 it was 86%.

Heritage sites of national significance

The abandoned village of ''Gonda'' is listed as a Swiss heritage site of national significance.Swiss inventory of cultural property of national and regional significance
21.11.2008 version, accessed 12-Oct-2009 Gonda was first mentioned about 1160 and by the 17th Century was abandoned. In 1983 it was restored.

References

{{Authority control Zernez Former municipalities of Graubünden Cultural property of national significance in Graubünden Populated places on the Inn (river) Silvretta Alps