Geography
Matten bei Interlaken has an area, as of 2009, of 5.9 square kilometers (2.3 sq mi). Of this area, 1.26 km2 (0.49 sq mi) or 21.4% is used for agricultural purposes, while 3.37 km2 (1.30 sq mi) or 57.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.25 km2 (0.48 sq mi) or 21.2% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.07 km2 (17 acres) or 1.2% is either rivers or lakes and 0.02 km2 (4.9 acres) or 0.3% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 1.2% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 9.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.6%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 2.2%. Out of the forested land, 55.9% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 2.0% is used for growing crops and 18.6% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is in rivers and streams.
Matten bei Interlaken lies in the Bernese Oberland in the Alps, in the Bödeli (the tongue of land between of Lake Thun and Lake Brienz). In the West, Matten borders on the foothills of the Abendberg Ridge, the Kleinen Rugen and the Grossen Rugen. The municipality includes the village and the exclave of Änderberg.
Matten bei Interlaken, like eight adjacent municipalities, belongs to the church parish Gsteig bei Interlaken.
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