Wetzikon

Wetzikon is a small town within the Zurich Highlands place of Switzerland, within the district of Hinwil within the canton of Zurich. The municipality Wetzikon has an area of 16.7 km2. Of this vicinity, 42.4 in step with cent is used for agricultural purposes, even as 17.6 in line with cent is forested. Of the rest of the land, 27.9 in line with cent is settled and the the rest is non-efficient streams, lakes and non-efficient flowers. In 1996 housing and buildings made up 20 consistent with cent of the total place, even as transportation infrastructure made up the rest.

Of the whole unproductive place, water streams and lakes made up 3.3 in keeping with cent of the location. As of 2007 30.5 per cent of the total municipal location was undergoing a few kind of construction. It is located close to Lake Pfaffikon within the Zurcher Oberland, between Uster and Rapperswil-Jona. The Robenhauser Ried wetland is a nature reserve of countrywide significance and is situated among Seegraben, Kempten and Irgenhausen overlaying an area of about two rectangular kilometers.