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Piz Kesch

highest mountain of the Albula Alps in Grisons, Switzerland
Mountain mountain Q668594

Facts

15 properties

Identity

Instance of
mountain, main peak, three-thousander, highest point, ultra-prominent peak[4][5][6][7]
Official name
Piz d'Es-cha, Piz Kesch[11][12]

Location

Country
Switzerland[3]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 46.621°, 9.873°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Canton of the Grisons[2]

Population and size

Elevation above sea level
+3417.7[13]
More facts +9
Part of
Rhine-Danube-Watershed[8]
Described by source
Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[10]
Key col
Saddle of Lukmanier Pass[18]
Mountain range
Albula Alps[17]
P14976
684DFF27-28F4-4842-A193-C6EC395E3521[19]
Parent peak
Galenstock[16]
Significant event
first ascent[9]
Topographic isolation
+22.95[14]
Topographic prominence
+1501[15]
🏷️ Also known as
en Piz Kesch ar بيز كيتش fa پیز کسچ it Piz d'Es-cha zh 凱施峰
🔖 Identifiers · 12
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Piz Kesch HQ.jpg ↗
Freebase ID
/m/02685vr
GNS Unique Feature ID
-2552633
GeoNames ID
2660169
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1107350
Hikr waypoint ID
1551
Museum-digital place ID
86600
NE.se ID
piz-kesch
OpenStreetMap node ID
1372766013
Peakbagger mountain ID
10077
SummitPost ID
153716
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["Mountain", "PizKesch"]
📚 Sources · 1
  • GeoNames as of 2026-09-26 · 1 statement · CC BY 4.0 CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.

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Located in time zoneP421
Europe/Zurich 2026-09-26 T/PK · CH GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
Transform
4ort-mint · lake · version not recorded
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
🔗 Connections
← Parent peak 13
Rheinwaldhorn, Piz Linard, Piz Platta, Piz Calderas, Flüela Schwarzhorn, Pizzo Tambò, Piz Vadret, Piz Üertsch +5 more
Instance of 2
mountain, ultra-prominent peak
Country 1
Switzerland
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Canton of the Grisons
Mountain range 1
Albula Alps
Parent peak 1
Galenstock
Significant event 1
first ascent
← Highest point 1
Albula Alps
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Summary

Piz Kesch is a mountain[1].

Related Entities

Switzerland

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . swissNAMES3D. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] ↑ . swissNAMES3D. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [14] ↑ . Sonny's LiDAR DTM1. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] ↑ . swissNAMES3D. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 20d ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14976 → 684DFF27-28F4-4842-A193-C6EC395E3521
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:1||1 */ P14976: 684DFF27-28F4-4842-A193-C6EC395E3521, swissNAMES3D ID from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  2. 4w ago · OKA bot bot · 2026-10-08 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Official name → {'lang': 'rm', 'text': "Piz d'Es-cha"}, {'lang': 'rm', 'text': 'Piz Kesch'}
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'arz', 'bg', 'ceb', 'commons', 'cs', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'it',
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbeditentity-statements-multiple-properties-update:0||2 */ source for position, official name from swisstopo data ([[Wikidata:Requests for permissions/Bot/OKA bot|swisstopo task]])"
  3. 27w ago · Ikan · 2026-05-01 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Parent peak → Galenstock
    Elevation above sea level → {'unit': 'Q11573', 'amount': '+3417.7'}
    Wolfram Language entity code → Entity["Mountain", "PizKesch"]
    Part of → Rhine-Danube-Watershed
    + 16 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Mountain", "PizKesch"], [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/257096|batch #257096]]"
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