Marchissy

Marchissy has an area, as of 2009, of 11.98 square kilometers . Of this area, 3.82 km2 or 31.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 7.76 km2 or 64.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.35 km2 or 2.9% is settled , 0.01 km2 or 0.1% is either rivers or lakes.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.3%. Out of the forested land, 62.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 15.0% is used for growing crops and 5.3% is pastures and 11.2% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water.