Barjac, Ariège

Commune in Occitanie, France

Commune in Occitania, France

Coat of arms

Location of Barjac

(2020–2026) Daniel Artaud^[1]Area

2.78 km² (1.07 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

43 • Density15/km² (40/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

09037 /09230

Elevation404–603 m (1,325–1,978 ft)
(avg. 466 m or 1,529 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Barjac (French pronunciation: [baʁʒak]) is a commune in the Ariège department, Occitania, southwestern France.^[3]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Barjacois or Barjacoises .^[4]

Geography

Barjac is located in the old Volvestre region of Languedoc some 10 km north of Saint-Girons and 60 km south by south-west of Toulouse. Access to the commune is by route D303A which branches off the D3 west of the commune and passes through the commune east then south to join the D303 to La Crouzette south-east of the commune. It is a part of the Natural Regional Park of Pyrénées ariégeoises. The commune is mixed forest and farmland.^[5]^[6]

The Grande Goutte stream forms the western border of the commune as it flows north to join Le Lens river north of the commune. Le Macaoude stream similarly forms the eastern border as it flows north to join Le Lens just north of the commune.

History

Barzac appears as Barzac on the 1750 Cassini Map^[7] and the same on the 1790 version.^[8]

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 42 inhabitants.

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Source: EHESS^[9] and INSEE^[10]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ INSEE commune file
^ Inhabitants of Ariège (in French)
^ ^a ^b Barjac on Google Maps
^ Barjac on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
^ Barjac on the 1750 Cassini Map
^ Barjac on the 1790 Cassini Map
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Barjac, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE