Sankt Leonhard im Pitztal is a municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in the Imst district

Imst (district)

The Bezirk Imst is an administrative district in Tyrol, Austria. It borders the district Reutte in the north, as well as sharing a small border with Bavaria...

, located 20 kilometres (12.4 mi) south of Imst

Imst

Imst is a city in the Austrian federal state of Tyrol. It lies on the River Inn in western Tyrol, some 55 km west of Innsbruck and at an altitude of 828 m above sea-level...

 on the upper course of the Pitze River

Pitze River

The Pitze is a right tributary of the river Inn in the Imst and flows through the Pitztal valley. It has a length of about . It merges with the Inn east of the city of Imst at an elevation of ....

 in western Austria

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

. The village covers a large area and has a length of around 25 kilometres (15.5 mi). It is one of the biggest communities of Tyrol by area.

The climate is severe because of mountain flanks. The area was founded around 1300, and its main source of income is tourism.

External links

• www.st-leonhard.tirol.gv.at - city website