The Landwasser is a river in
canton of Graubünden
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See also other names. more formally the Canton of the Grisons or the Canton of Graubünden, is one of the twenty-six cantons of Switzerland. I ...
, Switzerland. Its origin was
Lake Davos before this was turned into a reservoir for a power station. Nowadays it is prolonged by the creek Flüelabach at its source and changes its name near
Davos Dorf. The town of
Davos
Davos (, ; or ; ; Old ) is an Alpine resort town and municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of (). Davos is located on the river Landwasser, in the Rhaetian ...
is the largest, uppermost, and, except for the last bit, the only larger settlement on the river. Landwasser empties into the
Albula below the village of
Filisur.
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Landwasser Viaduct
The Landwasser Viaduct () is a Single-track railway, single-track six-arched curved limestone rail transport, railway viaduct. It spans the Landwasser between Schmitten, Graubünden, Schmitten and Filisur, in the Cantons of Switzerland, canton of ...
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List of rivers of Switzerland
The following is a list of rivers of Switzerland (and tributaries thereof). Included rivers flow either entirely or partly through Switzerland or along its international borders. Swiss rivers belong to five drainage basins, i.e. of the Rhine, th ...
Rivers of Switzerland
Rivers of Graubünden
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