Intercommunality Pays de Tarascon Area 8.84 km² | Region Occitanie Population (2014) 724 Local time Wednesday 8:53 AM | |
 | ||
Weather 2°C, Wind SE at 3 km/h, 74% Humidity | ||
Arignac is a French commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.
Contents
Map of 09400 Arignac, France
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arignacois or Arignacoises
Geography
Arignac is located 2 km north of Tarascon-sur-Ariège and some 11 km south of Foix. Access to the commune is by road D88 from Tarascon-sur-Ariège in the south passing through the village and continuing north-east to join National Highway N20 at Exit 14. The N20 passes through the south-east of the commune but the nearest exit is Exit 14 just east of the commune. The town covers about 10% of the commune with the rest mostly forest and hill country with a few farms in the south.
The Ariège river forms the south-eastern border of the commune and the Saurat flows south through the commune and the town to join the Ariège.
Administration
List of successive mayors
(Not all data is known)
Demography
In 2009, the commune had 706 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.
Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)