Moesa District


Moesa District, often referred to as Moesano, is a former administrative district in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It had an official language of Italian, a population of 8,125 in 2015, and an area of, corresponding to the Mesolcina valley along the eponymous Moesa River.
On 1 January 2015 the former municipalities of Arvigo, Braggio, Selma and Cauco merged to form the new municipality of Calanca.
The Moesa District was replaced with the Moesa Region on 1 January 2017 as part of a reorganization of the canton.

Municipalities

It consisted of three Kreise and fourteen municipalities:
MunicipalityPopulation Area
Buseno11.26
Calanca
Castaneda3.94
Rossa58.93
Santa Maria in Calanca9.32

MunicipalityPopulation
Area
Lostallo50.91
Mesocco164.76
Soazza46.37

MunicipalityPopulation
Area
Cama15.06
Grono14.83
Leggia9.15
Roveredo38.78
San Vittore22.03
Verdabbio13.11

Languages

The official language of Moesa is Italian, traditionally the Western Lombard dialect spoken by the native population.