Canton Castillon-en-Couserans Area 212 ha | Region Occitanie Intercommunality Castillonnais Local time Tuesday 8:35 PM | |
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Balacet is a French commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.
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Map of 09800 Balacet, France
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Balacetois or Balacetoises.
Geography
Balacet is located some 8 km south-west of Audressein and 3 km north-east of Sentein in the Biros Valley. Access to the commune is by the tortuous D704 road which branches from the D4 just west of Lascoux and goes to the village then continues east to Uchentein. There is also another road that goes west from the village to Irazein. The commune is a rugged mountain commune which is heavily forested.
Administration
List of Successive Mayors
(Not all data is known)
Demography
In 2010 the commune had 20 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 communes 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)
Religious heritage
The Parish Church contains several items that are registered as historical objects: