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Charrat
Charrat coat of arms
State : SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland
Canton : Canton of ValaisCanton of Valais Valais (VS)
District : Martigny
BFS no. : 6132i1 f3 f4
Postal code : 1906
Coordinates : 576 592  /  107997 coordinates: 46 ° 7 '23 "  N , 7 ° 8' 9"  O ; CH1903:  five hundred seventy-six thousand five hundred and ninety-two  /  107997
Height : 461  m above sea level M.
Height range : 456–1576 m above sea level M.
Area : 7.59  km²
Residents: 1849 (December 31, 2018)
Population density : 244 inhabitants per km²
Website: www.charrat.ch
Location of the municipality
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Charrat is a municipal municipality and a civic municipality in the Martigny district in the French-speaking part of the Swiss canton of Valais .

geography

The municipality of Charrat is located on the southern side of the Rhone Valley east of Martigny and consists of the villages of Les Chênes and Vision as well as the predominantly industrial area around the Charrat-Fully train station. Charrat's neighboring communities are Fully in the north, Saxon in the east, Vollèges in the south and Martigny in the west.

After the first correction of the Rhone, large drainage canals were created in the Rhone plain. The Canal du Syndicat leads to Martigny.

history

For centuries, Charrat belonged to the municipality of Martigny, in 1836 the canton approved the separation and the formation of its own municipality.

population

Population development
year 1850 1900 1950 2000 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Residents 341 554 887 1081 1415 1523 1526 1552 1611 1666 1734

literature

Web links

Commons : Charrat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Permanent and non-permanent resident population by year, canton, district, municipality, population type and gender (permanent resident population). In: bfs. admin.ch . Federal Statistical Office (FSO), August 31, 2019, accessed on December 22, 2019 .
  2. ^ A b Frédéric Giroud: Charrat. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .