Prades Salars

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Prades-Salars
Pradas
Prades-Salars (France)
Prades Salars
region Occitania
Department Aveyron
Arrondissement Millau
Canton Raspes et Lévezou
Community association Pays de Salars
Coordinates 44 ° 16 '  N , 2 ° 47'  E Coordinates: 44 ° 16 '  N , 2 ° 47'  E
height 769-984 m
surface 30.55 km 2
Residents 309 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 10 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 12290
INSEE code

Prades-Salars ( Occitan : Pradas ) is a French commune with 309 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Aveyron department in the Occitania region (before 2016: Midi-Pyrénées ). Administratively it belongs to the arrondissement of Millau and is part of the canton of Raspes et Lévezou (until 2015: canton of Pont-de-Salars ). The inhabitants are called Salarsipradiens .

geography

Prades-Salars is about 19 kilometers southeast of Rodez . The Violou , which is dammed up to the Lac de Pareloup in the southwest , limits the municipality in the south. Prades-Salars is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Ségur in the north and east, Curan in the south-east, Salles-Curan in the south, Canet-de-Salars in the west and south-west and Pont-de-Salars in the north-west.

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2013
Residents 442 401 365 316 320 293 282 282
Source: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

View of the town center with the church
  • Saint-Jean-Baptiste church
  • Cemetery chapel

Web links

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