Cama is a

municipality A municipality is usually a single administrative division having municipal corporation, corporate status and powers of self-government or jurisdiction as granted by national and regional laws to which it is subordinate. The term ''municipality' ...

in the

Moesa Region The Moesa Region is one of the eleven Districts of Switzerland, administrative districts in the Cantons of Switzerland, Canton of the Grisons (or in German: Graubünden) in Switzerland. It had an area of and a population of (as of ).. It was cr ...

in the

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of Graubünden.

History

Cama is first mentioned in 1219 as ''Camma''. Between 1907 and 1978, Mesocco was linked to

Bellinzona Bellinzona ( , ; ; is a municipality, a List of towns in Switzerland, historic Swiss town, and the capital of the canton of Ticino in Switzerland. The town is famous for its Three Castles of Bellinzona, three castles (Castelgrande, Montebello, Sa ...

and the Gotthard railway to the south, and

Mesocco Mesocco () is a municipality in the Moesa Region in the Swiss canton of Graubünden. History The first human settlement in the area dates back to the Mesolithic era. Stone tools dating to about 6000 BC have been found in the Silex section of the ...

to the north, by the

Bellinzona–Mesocco railway The Bellinzona–Mesocco railway (; BM) was a Switzerland, Swiss metre gauge railway that linked the towns of Bellinzona, in the canton of Ticino, and Mesocco, in the canton of Graubünden. The line was built by the ''Società Anonima della Ferro ...

. The section between Cama and Castione-Arbedo station, on the Gotthard line, remained open for freight until 2003, and is now operated as a tourist railway.

Geography

Cama has an area, , of . Of this area, 4.2% is used for agricultural purposes, while 60.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 2.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (33.1%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains). Before 2017, the municipality was located in the Moesa district in the Roveredo sub-district, along both banks of the

Moesa The Moesa is a river, a tributary of the Ticino, which flows through the Swiss cantons of Grisons and Ticino. It rises in Val Vignun near the San Bernardino Pass and descends, along with the A13 motorway, through the Val Mesolcina towards R ...

river. It consists of the village of Cama and the sections of Al Pont and Norantola. Lago di Cama is located in the municipality.

Demographics

Cama has a population (as of ) of . , 13.6% of the population was made up of foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years the population has grown at a rate of 3%.Swiss Federal Statistical Office
accessed 23-Oct-2009 , the gender distribution of the population was 49.1% male and 50.9% female.Graubunden in Numbers
accessed 21 September 2009 The age distribution, , in Cama is; 53 children or 11.2% of the population are between 0 and 9 years old. 16 teenagers or 3.4% are 10 to 14, and 15 teenagers or 3.2% are 15 to 19. Of the adult population, 67 people or 14.1% of the population are between 20 and 29 years old. 80 people or 16.9% are 30 to 39, 69 people or 14.6% are 40 to 49, and 67 people or 14.1% are 50 to 59. The senior population distribution is 53 people or 11.2% of the population are between 60 and 69 years old, 38 people or 8.0% are 70 to 79, there are 16 people or 3.4% who are 80 to 89.Graubunden Population Statistics
accessed 21 September 2009 In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 35.3% of the vote. The next three most popular parties were the CVP (32%), the FDP (17.4%) and the SP (15.3%). The entire Swiss population is generally well educated. In Cama about 64.5% of the population (between age 25-64) have completed either non-mandatory

upper secondary education Secondary education is the education level following primary education and preceding tertiary education. Level 2 or ''lower secondary education'' (less commonly ''junior secondary education'') is considered the second and final phase of basic e ...

or additional higher education (either University or a ''

Fachhochschule A (; plural ), abbreviated FH, is a university of applied sciences (UAS), in other words a Hochschule, German tertiary education institution that provides professional education in many applied sciences and applied arts, such as engineering, te ...

''). Cama has an unemployment rate of 2.56%. , there were 34 people employed in the primary economic sector and about 13 businesses involved in this sector. 46 people are employed in the

secondary sector In macroeconomics, the secondary sector of the economy is an economic sector in the three-sector theory that describes the role of manufacturing. It encompasses industries that produce a finished, usable product or are involved in constructi ...

and there are 8 businesses in this sector. 93 people are employed in the

tertiary sector The tertiary sector of the economy, generally known as the service sector, is the third of the three economic sectors in the three-sector model (also known as the economic cycle). The others are the primary sector (raw materials) and the ...

, with 18 businesses in this sector. The historical population is given in the following table:

Languages

Most of the population () speaks Italian (88.2%), with German being second most common ( 5.1%) and Portuguese being third ( 2.3%).

References

External links

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Val Cama
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