Tamina

Mouth of the Tamina into the Rhine

The Tamina is a river in the canton of St. Gallen, Switzerland.

For a number of mountain streams Tamina arises on the eastern flank of Piz Sardona 3'056 m. Your water also comes from the Sardonagletscher and the " Chline glacier ", both at over 2,600 meters above sea level. It accumulates in the vicinity of the Sardonahütte and flows from west to east through the whole Calfeisental. It supplies at St. Martin Giger the lake with fresh water and drained it.

In Vättis the Calfeisental empties into the Tamina. In it, the Tamina the Görbsbach, which flows from the south from the Kunkelpass ago. From Vättis the Tamina flows in the aligned to the northeast Taminatal to Mapraggsee, a reservoir of power plants Sarganserland. A little later she crosses the up to 200 m deep Tamina Gorge. At the output of the Tamina Therme Bad Ragaz combined at approximately 18 kilometers total length with the Rhine. Larger cities along the river are Ragaz Bad Ragaz and.