Vöran is one of the four villages on the wide ridge of the Tschöggl Mountain, which is covered with pasture lands and forests. The village is subdivided into the two hamlets of Vöran and Aschl and numerous scattered isolated farmhouses. The road from Meran and Hafling, which was built in the 1980's, ended the geographical, economical and social isolation of the villages on the Tschöggl Mountain, which previously could had been reached only by a funicular from Burgstall. Since 1996, Vöran has been the only village in South Tyrol and within the Arge Alp, which generates all its needed energy from biomass long-distance heating and solar energy with a modern photovoltaic plant on the Vöraner Alm.