Barjac, Ariège

Barjac is a commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.[2]

Not to be confused with Barjac, Gard.

Barjac
Commune
Location of Barjac
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Coordinates: 43°04′00″N 1°08′06″E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Ariège
Arrondissement	Saint-Girons
Canton	Portes du Couserans
Intercommunality	Volvestre ariégeois
Government
• Mayor (2001–2020)	Daniel Artaud
Area ^1	2.78 km^2 (1.07 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	42
• Density	15/km^2 (39/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	09037 /09230
Elevation	404–603 m (1,325–1,978 ft) (avg. 466 m or 1,529 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Barjacois or Barjacoises .[3]

Geography

Barjac is located in the old Volvestre region of Languedoc some 10 km north of Saint-Girons and 60 km south by south-west of Toulouse. Access to the commune is by route D303A which branches off the D3 west of the commune and passes through the commune east then south to join the D303 to La Crouzette south-east of the commune. It is a part of the Natural Regional Park of Pyrénées ariégeoises. The commune is mixed forest and farmland.[4][5]

The Grande Goutte stream forms the western border of the commune as it flows north to join Le Lens river north of the commune. Le Macaoude stream similarly forms the eastern border as it flows north to join Le Lens just north of the commune.

History

Barzac appears as Barzac on the 1750 Cassini Map[6] and the same on the 1790 version.[7]

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 36 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger communes that have a sample survey every year.[Note 1]

Population change (See database)

1793	1800	1806	1821	1831	1836	1841	1846	1851
248	249	305	247	301	289	311	288	311

1856	1861	1866	1872	1876	1881	1886	1891	1896
244	303	310	194	187	178	166	157	134

1901	1906	1911	1921	1926	1931	1936	1946	1954
118	110	127	100	91	78	76	51	34

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2010	-
34	30	26	29	29	42	39	36	-

Sources: Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

Population of Barjac

See also

• Communes of the Ariège department

Notes and references

Notes

1. At the beginning of the 21st century, the methods of identification have been modified by Law No. 2002-276 of 27 February 2002 Archived 6 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, the so-called "law of local democracy" and in particular Title V "census operations" allows, after a transitional period running from 2004 to 2008, the annual publication of the legal population of the different French administrative districts. For communes with a population greater than 10,000 inhabitants, a sample survey is conducted annually and the entire territory of these communes is taken into account at the end of the period of five years. The first "legal population" after 1999 under this new law came into force on 1 January 2009 and was based on the census of 2006.

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. Barjac on Lion1906
3. Inhabitants of Ariège (in French)
4. Barjac on Google Maps
5. Barjac on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
6. Barjac on the 1750 Cassini Map
7. Barjac on the 1790 Cassini Map