Arosa is a municipality in the canton of Grisons in Switzerland known as summer and winter resort. The twenty-six cantons of Switzerland are the states of the federal state of Switzerland. ... Grisons or Graubünden (German: Graubünden; Italian: Grigioni; Romansh: Grischun) is the largest and easternmost canton of Switzerland. ... In contrast to centrally organised states, in the federally constituted Switzerland each Canton is completely free to decide its own internal organisation. ... This article is about longitude and latitude; see also UTM coordinate system Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (vertically) and longitude (horizontally); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which... 2003: January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August _ September - October - November - December - → A timeline of events in the news for December, 2003. ... This article explains the meaning of area as a physical quantity. ... Square kilometre (US spelling: Square kilometer), symbol km², is an SI unit of surface area. ... Elevation has several related meanings: Geography The elevation of a geographic location is its height above mean sea level (or possibly some other fixed point). ... The metre is the basic unit of length in the International System of Units (SI: Système International dUnités). ... Here are postal codes of Switzerland and Liechtenstein: Zone 1 1000s are found in Lausanne, Lavaux and parts of Morges, 1100s in parts of Morges, 1200s are in Geneva and parts of La Côte, Vaud, 1300s in La Vallée, 1500s are found in Clavaleyres, the 1700s are found... A mayor (from the Latin maÄ«or, meaning larger,greater) is the politician who serves as chief executive official of some types of municipalities. ... Grisons or Graubünden (German: Graubünden; Italian: Grigioni; Romansh: Grischun) is the largest and easternmost canton of Switzerland. ...

Arosa is situated at the end of the Schanfigg valley on a height of 1'742 to 1'775 m above sea level. The place is at the foot of the Weisshorn (2'653 m). It possesses a well-known and snow-safe skiing area boasting of over 60 runway kilometers. The municipality comprises an area of 4'254 hectar.

The first known settlements existed in the 13th century. After 1300 Arosa German speaking Walser settlers came from Davos and replaced the Romansh speaking original settlers. For the next centuries, the inhabitants subsisted on alpine pasture economy. Until the year 1851 politically a part of the Davos municipality and was, like Davos, known as a health resort. 1888 the first sanatorium was opened. From 1900 on it became by and by also a winter resort. 1938 the first ski elevators were constructed, and 1956 the Weisshorn cable car was opened and further rope and chair lifts followed. Walser (or Walserdytsch) is a highest-Alemannic dialect spoken in parts of Switzerland, and in a few communities of Italy, Liechtenstein, and Austria. ... Romansh (also spelled Rumantsch, Romansch or Romanche) is any of the various Rhaetian languages spoken in Switzerland. ...

Skiing in Switzerland received a big boost in England from none other than Sir Auther Conan Doyle, author of the Sherlock Holmes series. Doyle, an avid sportsman, was spending winter time in Davos, long before it became fashionable to take winter vacations in the Alps. For entertainment, he ordered some skiing "boards" from Norway and hiked up the mountain with two local guides. They then skiied down into Arosa, ending their journey with a luncheon at a local inn, the Seehoff. Doyle wrote of his pioneering Davos/Arosa ski adventure in a British magazine, The Strand, in 1894, and the story attracted British skiiers to Switzerland. It's said that no guides today will retrace Doyle's route over the 9,000 foot Meyer-felder Furka Pass because of the avalanche risk inherenet in the terrain.

Inhabitant development

• 1500 - ca. 140
• 1851 - 56
• 1900 - 1070
• 1930 - 3'466
• 1970 - 2'717
• 1980 - 2'782
• 1990 - 2'271
• 2000 - 2'771
• 2003 - 2294

The main economy is tourism, where Arosa maintains 4'287 guest beds.

References

• Official site of Arosa tourism
• Official site of the Arosa municipality