Mélagues

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Mélagues
Melagas
Mélagues (France)
Mélagues
region Occitania
Department Aveyron
Arrondissement Millau
Canton Causses-Rougiers
Community association Monts, Rance and Rougier
Coordinates 43 ° 44 '  N , 3 ° 1'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 44 '  N , 3 ° 1'  E
height 554–1,067 m
surface 44.51 km 2
Residents 60 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 1 inhabitant / km 2
Post Code 12360
INSEE code

Mélagues ( Occitan : Melagas ) is a place and a municipality in the south of France with 60 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Aveyron department in the Occitania region (previously Midi-Pyrénées ). Mélagues belongs to the Millau arrondissement and the Causses-Rougiers canton (until 2015: Camarès canton ). The inhabitants are called Mélagais .

location

Mélagues is the southernmost municipality in the Aveyron department. It is located about 48 kilometers east-southeast of Albi in the southwest of the historic province of Rouergue . Mélagues is surrounded by the neighboring communities Tauriac-de-Camarès in the north, Avène in the east, Graissessac in the southeast, Saint-Gervais-sur-Mare in the south and southeast, Saint-Geniès-de-Varensal in the south, Castanet-le-Haut in the South-west, Arnac-sur-Dourdou in the west and south-west and Brusque in the west and north-west.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2013
Residents 138 107 113 94 106 102 71 61
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • 19th century Saint Martin church
  • 19th century church Saint-Pierre
  • Saint-Maurice chapel from the 19th century

Web links

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