Palü Glacier

Palü in August 2009

The Palü ( in the Lombard dialect of Val Poschiavo Vadret as Palu ) is a glacier in the Bernina massif in the Swiss Alps in the canton of Grisons.

The glacier reached its most recent peak in 1860, when his tongue pushed forward until well into the plane of Alp Palu and threatened to reach the Palüsee. Already in the first half of the 20th century, the glacier retreated from the plane of Alp Palu. In the 1970s, he remained just above the first threshold rock above the Alp. Since the early 1990s, the Abschmelzungsprozess accelerated dramatically and the tongue of the glacier retreated further and further behind over the rocks, currently ( 2007) is located on the tongue of about 2600 m above sea level. M. At peak they reached up to about 1940 m above sea level. M. down. From the year 2000 a at the foot of the glacier on the first rock terrace above the Alp Palu a new glacial lake.

The melt water from the glacier flows as aqua as Palu in the Palüsee, where the vast majority is taken from the power plants of Raetia energy.

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