Charrat
Charrat | |
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State : | Switzerland |
Canton : | Valais (VS) |
District : | Martigny |
BFS no. : | 6132 |
Postal code : | 1906 |
Coordinates : | 576 592 / 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 | |
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 | |||||||||||
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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
- Frédéric Giroud: Charrat. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . 2005 .
Web links
- Charrat on the ETHorama platform
- Official website of the municipality of Charrat
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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 .
- ^ A b Frédéric Giroud: Charrat. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .