Aunat

Coat of arms

Aunat

Location within Languedoc-Roussillon region

Aunat

Coordinates: 42°47′41″N 2°05′46″E / 42.7947°N 2.0961°ECoordinates: 42°47′41″N 2°05′46″E / 42.7947°N 2.0961°E

Country

France

Region

Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées

Belcaire

Pays de Sault

Government

• Mayor (2014–2020)

Henri Vaquer

Area¹

10.62 km² (4.10 sq mi)

Population (2010)²

• Density

3.7/km² (9.5/sq mi)

INSEE/Postal code

11019 / 11140

Elevation

593–1,200 m (1,946–3,937 ft)
(avg. 936 m or 3,071 ft)

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

² Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Aunat is a French commune in the Aude department in the Languedoc-Roussillon region of southern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aunatois or Aunatoises.^[1]

Geography

Aunat is located some 60 km west by north-west of Perpignan and 25 km east by north-east of Ax-les-Thermes. Access to the commune is by the D20 road from Rodome in the west which passes through the village and continues east to Bessède-de-Sault. The D29 road comes from Fontanès-de-Sault in the south and passes through the length of the commune and the village before continuing north-west to join the D107 north-east of Belfort-sur-Rebenty. The commune is mostly rugged and forested but with farmland in the valley around the village.^[2]

The Ruisseau du Mouillou rises in the north-east of the commune and flows west gathering several tributaries from the north including the Ruisseau du Bernet and the Ruisseau de Valmajou before joining the Ruisseau de Romanis on the western border of the commune.^[2]

Neighbouring communes and villages^[2]

Aunat

Campagna-de-Sault

Fontanès-de-Sault

Le Bousquet

Heraldry

	Blazon: Or, an alder tree eradicated of Gules.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[3]

From	To	Name
2001	2008	Lucien Faure
2008	2014	Jean Séguéla
2014	2020	Henri Vaquer

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 39 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.^{[Note 1]}

Population Change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
354	331	435	481	507	514	495	498	494

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
442	473	474	469	429	428	411	405	439

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
403	339	313	253	253	218	208	200	172

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
150	134	119	82	55	52	48	39	-

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Notable people linked to the commune

The paternal side of Edgar Faure originated from this commune for many generations before 1850.

Notes and references

Notes

↑ At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually, the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

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Communes of the Aude department

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