Bivio

Bivio (Romansh: Beiva, German: Stallen) is a village and former municipality in the Sursés in the district of Albula of the Swiss canton of Graubünden.

Of the rest of the land, 0.4% is settled (buildings or roads) and the remainder (48.6%) is non-productive (rivers, glaciers or mountains).

It is the only traditionally Italian language village north of the continental divide.

It consists of the village of Bivio and the hamlets of Stalveder, Mott, Cavreccia and Valetta da Beiva.

[5] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the SVP which received 35.2% of the vote.

The wettest month is August during which time Bivio receives an average of 138 mm (5.4 in) of precipitation.

The driest month of the year is February with an average of 56 mm (2.2 in) of precipitation over 11.9 days.

The local version of Romansh is somewhere between the two main dialects: Surmiran and Puter.

[3] The archeological discovery of a Roman mountain shrine in the Julier pass, is listed as a Swiss heritage sites of national significance.

Bivio
Aerial view from 3200 m by Walter Mittelholzer (1925)