Guttet-Feschel is a municipality in the district of Leuk in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[5] Guttet-Feschel has an area, as of 2009[update], of 10.5 square kilometers (4.1 sq mi).

Of the rest of the land, 0.37 km2 (0.14 sq mi) or 3.5% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.06 km2 (15 acres) or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and 3.28 km2 (1.27 sq mi) or 31.2% is unproductive land.

[6] The municipality, located in the Leuk district, was created by the merger of Guttet and Fesche.

[9] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks German (399 or 97.3%) as their first language, Albanian is the second most common (5 or 1.2%) and French is the third (4 or 1.0%).

[9] The historical population is given in the following chart:[13][14] The entire village of Feschel is designated as part of the Inventory of Swiss Heritage Sites.

[15] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 53.3% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 224 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 63.5%.

[17] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 222 votes were cast, of which 5 or about 2.3% were invalid.

[9] There were 164 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 34.1% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 5 or 21.7% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 4 or 17.4% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was the insurance or financial industry, 4 or 17.4% were technical professionals or scientists, 3 or 13.0% were in education and 6 or 26.1% were in health care.

[9] From the 2000 census[update], 373 or 91.0% were Roman Catholic, while 21 or 5.1% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

[10] As of 2000[update], there were 51 students from Guttet-Feschel who attended schools outside the municipality.