Giffers
municipality in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland
Giffers (French: Chevrilles; Arpitan: Chevrilyes [tsəˈvʁiʎə] ) is a municipality in the district of Sense in the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland. It is one of the municipalities with a large majority of German speakers in the mostly French speaking Canton of Fribourg.
History
Giffers is first mentioned in 1160 as Chivriles. In 1301 it was mentioned as Guifrils and in 1577 it was first called Giffers.
Geography
Giffers has an area of 5.22 km2 (2.02 sq mi). Of this area, 3.38 km2 (1.31 mi2) or 64.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 1.02 km2 (0.39 mi2) or 19.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.71 km2 (0.27 mi2) or 13.6% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.11 km2 (27 acres) or 2.1% is either rivers or lakes.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.9% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.0%. Out of the forested land, 18.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 19.2% is used for growing crops and 45.1% is pastures.
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