Les Verrières

Les Verrières (le vɛʁjɛʁ) is a municipality in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland. History Les Verrières is first mentioned in 1344 as villa de Verreriis. Jt was here that General Charles-Denis Bourbaki crossed the Swiss border with the remnants of the Armée de l'Est during the Franco-Prussian War (1870–71). Geography Les Verrières has an area, , of . Of this area, or 46.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 50.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.3% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.4% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.6%. Out of the forested land, 46.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 4.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 1.2% is used for growing crops and 22.8% is pastures and 22.0% is used for alpine pastures. The municipality was located i

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