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Yvorne

municipality in Switzerland

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ70240
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Yvorne is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Aigle.

Geography

Yvorne has an area, as of 2009, of 12.2 square kilometers (4.7 sq mi). Of this area, 5.79 km2 (2.24 sq mi) or 47.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while 4.83 km2 (1.86 sq mi) or 39.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.18 km2 (0.46 sq mi) or 9.7% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.34 km2 (0.13 sq mi) or 2.8% is either rivers or lakes and 0.07 km2 (17 acres) or 0.6% is unproductive land.

Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 4.9%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.5%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 29.1% is used for growing crops and 2.5% is pastures, while 15.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. Of the water in the municipality, 1.2% is in lakes and 1.6% is in rivers and streams.

Yvorne is a vine-growing area and produces a noted white wine.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q70240. VIAF identifies the subject as 233884166. Authority coordinates are 46.333, 6.950. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2009.

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This entry incorporates text from Yvorne” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.