Canton of Vézins-de-Lévézou
Former canton of Vézins-de-Lévézou |
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region | Midi-Pyrénées |
Department | Aveyron |
Arrondissement | Millau |
main place | Vézins-de-Lévézou |
Dissolution date | March 29, 2015 |
Residents | 1,757 (Jan 1, 2012) |
Population density | 9 inhabitants / km² |
surface | 203.23 km² |
Communities | 4th |
INSEE code | 1241 |
The canton of Vézins-de-Lévézou was a French canton in the Aveyron department and the Midi-Pyrénées region until 2015 . It included four parishes in the arrondissement of Millau ; its main town (French: chef-lieu ) was Vézins-de-Lévézou . The nationwide changes in the composition of the cantons resulted in its dissolution in March 2015.
geography
The canton of Vézins-de-Lévézou was 203.23 km 2 and last had 1757 inhabitants (as of 2012). It was on average 820 m high, between 506 m in Saint-Léons and 1155 m in Vézins-de-Lévézou .
Communities
The canton consisted of four municipalities:
local community | Population (as of 2017) |
Code postal | Code Insee |
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Saint-Laurent-de-Lévézou | 153 | 12620 | 12236 |
Saint-Léons | 398 | 12780 | 12238 |
Ségur | 557 | 12290 | 12266 |
Vézins-de-Lévézou | 656 | 12780 | 12294 |
Personalities
- Jean-Henri Fabre (born December 21, 1823 in Saint-Léons du Lévézou; † October 11, 1915 in Sérignan-du-Comtat, Vaucluse) natural scientist (entomologist), poet and writer, member of the Académie Française and the Légion d'honneur . He is considered a pioneer in behavioral research and ecophysiology.