Val Piumogna

The Val Piumogna is a small right side valley of the Valle Leventina in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .

geography

A large part of the valley lies in the municipality of Dalpe . Dalpe and its district of Cornone are located at the entrance to the valley at 1192  m above sea level. M. The upper part of Val Piumogna lies in the municipality of Faido .

The valley is surrounded by high mountains such as the Pizzo Campo Tencia (3072 m above sea level), the Pizzo Penca (3038 m above sea level) and the Pizzo Forno (2907 m above sea level). In the upper part of the Val Piumogna is the Capanna Campo Tencia located at 2140 meters .

The Piumogna flows through the valley . The source of the river is located a little above Lake Morghirolo , a mountain lake at the upper end of the valley. South of Dalpe, the Piumogna forms the first impressive waterfall, which is also visible from the village. Below the village, the stream flows through a ravine and finally forms a last waterfall at Faido, just before it flows into the Ticino River.

The Val Piumogna is popular with hikers and mountaineers as it is the starting point for various tours.

history

On the left slope of Val Piumogna, at the foot of Pizzo Lambro at 1350 meters, there used to be the village of Piumogna , which was a mountain pasture from Dalpe. Towards the end of the 19th century, however, a landslide formed on the unstable slope of Pizzo Lambro, which gradually buried the houses in Piumogna. Today only a few buildings remain of the village that are used as holiday homes.

The church of San Giovanni , which had been spared from the landslide, was in poor condition and was blown up in 1978 . A new chapel was built in its place further up the valley. In the 1960s they wanted to build a dam near Piumogna and flood the whole valley. However, the project was not pursued any further because the slopes of Pizzo Lambro are not stable enough.

The water of the Piumogna is used below Dalpe by a power station built by the municipality in 1998.