!!!Pustertal

Pustertal valley (Val Pusteria), Italy and East Tirol; valley running 
longitudinally from the Muehlbach Gorge in South Tirol to the Lienz 
Gorge in East Tirol located between the Zillertal Alps and the 
Defereggen mountains in the north and the Dolomite Alps in the south. 
The Pustertal valley is divided naturally into a western section 
(drained by the Rienza river which flows westward joining the Isarco 
river near Bressanone/Brixen), a middle section (through which the 
Drau/Drava flows) and an eastern section (Hoch-Pustertal). The 
valley´s watershed is the Toblach/Dobbiaco field (South Tirol). 
Since 1919 the western and middle sections have belonged to Italy, and 
the eastern section (Tirol: Hoch-Pustertal) to Austria.

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Agriculture in the Austrian Pustertal valley: silage maize, oats, 
barley and vegetables, pasture land; Simmental Cattle, mountain sheep. 
Tourist resorts in the Pustertal valley and environs (hiking, skiing) 
on the Austrian side include: Sillian (1,103 m); in South Tirol: 
Innichen/San Candido, Sexten/Sesto (in the south-eastern section of 
the Pustertal valley), Toblach/Dobbiaco (1,240 m) the Antholz 
Valley (in the north east) and Bruneck/Brunico (main town in the 
Pustertal valley). On the edge of the Hoch-Pustertal valley in Tirol 
lies Lienz (673 m); roads and railways connect the Carinthian 
Drau Valley to Bolzano/Bozen and Innsbruck.

!Literature
W. Pippke and I. Pallhuber, Suedtirol, 1981.


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