Area 12.51 km² | Region Occitanie Canton Coursan Population (2009) 1,547 Local time Wednesday 6:29 PM | |
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Weather 13°C, Wind S at 13 km/h, 69% Humidity | ||
Armissan (Occitan: Armissan) is a French commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region of southern France.
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Map of 11110 Armissan, France
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Armissannais or Armissannaises
Geography
Armissan is part of the urban area of Narbonne and is located just 2 km east of the city immediately south of Vinassan and inside the Regional Natural Park of Narbonne. Access to the commune is by road D68 from Narbonne passing through the town and continuing south-east to join the D168 to Narbonne-Plage at the southern border of the commune. The D168 from Narbonne to Narbonne-Plage also passes through the south of the commune. There is also the D31 going south from Vinasson through the west of the commune to join the D32. The A9 autoroute passes through the west of the commune but has no exit - the nearest exit is Exit 37 at Narbonne. The commune has large forests in the south-west and in the north with the rest of the commune farmland.
The Ruisseau Mayral with many tributaries flows through the village west to join a network of canals west of the A9.
Administration
List of Successive Mayors
(Not all data is known)
Demography
In 2009 the commune had 1,547 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)
Economy
The commune is part of the Languedoc AOC.
Sites and monuments
The Church of Saint-Etienne contains many items that are registered as historical objects: