Vernet-la-Varenne
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local community | Le Vernet-Chaméane | |
region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | |
Department | Puy-de-Dôme | |
Arrondissement | Issoire | |
Coordinates | 45 ° 29 ′ N , 3 ° 27 ′ E | |
Post Code | 63500 | |
Former INSEE code | 63448 | |
Incorporation | 1st January 2019 | |
status | Commune déléguée | |
Website | http://www.vernetlavarenne.fr/ |
Vernet-la-Varenne is a commune Déléguée in the French commune of Le Vernet-Chaméane with 646 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Puy-de-Dôme in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes (before 2016 Auvergne ).
The municipality of Vernet-la-Varenne merged with Chaméane on January 1, 2019 to form the Commune nouvelle Le Vernet-Chaméane. Since then it has had the status of a Commune déléguée. The municipality of Vernet-la-Varenne belonged to the Arrondissement Issoire and the canton Brassac-les-Mines (until 2015: Canton Sauxillanges ).
geography
Vernet-la-Varenne is about 60 kilometers south-southeast of Clermont-Ferrand . The municipality of Vernet-la-Varenne was surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Chaméane in the north, Saint-Genès-la-Tourette in the north and northeast, Saint-Germain-l'Herm in the east and southeast, Sainte-Catherine in the south, Champagnat-le- Jeune in the south and south-west, La Chapelle-sur-Usson in the south-west, Bansat in the west and Saint-Étienne-sur-Usson in the north-west.
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2013 |
Residents | 880 | 819 | 752 | 690 | 642 | 609 | 702 | 703 |
Source: Cassini and INSEE |
Attractions
- Notre-Dame church
- Montfort Castle in La Reynerie
- Vernet-la-Varenne Castle