Val Bernina

Val Bernina
	Val Bernina with Piz Albris to the north. On the left the Diavolezza cable car station , on the right to Piz Lagalb .
location	District Upper Engadin ; Canton GR CH
Waters	Flaz , Ova da Bernina
Mountains	Livigno Alps (NE) Bernina Alps (SW)
Geographical location	791 751 / 148 891 coordinates: 46 ° 28 ' N , 9 ° 56' O ; CH1903: 791,751 / one hundred and forty-eight thousand eight hundred and ninety-one
height	1720 to 3602 m above sea level M.
length	17 km

The Val Bernina ( [ˌvalˈbərˈninɐ] ^?^/^I ) is the highest side valley of the Upper Engadine in the Swiss canton of Graubünden . It is around 17 kilometers long and extends from the foot of the Muottas Muragl in a south-easterly direction to Lago Bianco at the Bernina Pass .

The only village in the valley is Pontresina . All field names are Romansh and follow the dialect Puter . It is traversed by the Bernina stream , which separates the Livigno Alps (northeast) from the Bernina Alps (southwest) and on whose banks the valley stations of the cable cars to Diavolezza (left) and Piz Lagalb (right) are located.

Side valleys of Val Bernina are on the one hand (right) Val Muragl , Val da Fain and Val Minor and (left) Val Roseg and Val Morteratsch . The latter lies at the foot of the famous Piz Bernina and, with the Morteratsch Glacier, has the largest glacier in the Engadine.

The valley is accessible from the cantonal road Samedan - Tirano and the Bernina Express of the Rhaetian Railway .

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