Pujaut

Pujaut
Commune
The church of Pujaut
Coat of arms
Location of Pujaut
Pujaut Pujaut
Coordinates: 44°00′20″N 4°46′31″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Gard
Arrondissement	Nîmes
Canton	Villeneuve-lès-Avignon
Intercommunality	CA Grand Avignon
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Guy David
Area 1	23.5 km2 (9.1 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	3,908
• Density	170/km2 (430/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	30209 /30131
Elevation	20–168 m (66–551 ft) (avg. 110 m or 360 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Pujaut is a commune in the Gard department in southern France. The village is situated on the south side of a small hill overlooking a flat plain that once formed the bed of a lake. The lake was drained at the beginning of the 17th century. The village is located 3.5 km west of the Rhône, 4.5 km north of Villeneuve-lès-Avignon and 5 km south of Roquemaure. In 2017 the commune had a population of 4,136.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 906 —     1799 998 +10.2% 1803 1,033 +3.5% 1806 1,057 +2.3% 1820 1,178 +11.4% 1826 1,268 +7.6% 1831 1,297 +2.3% 1836 1,362 +5.0% 1841 1,390 +2.1% 1846 1,546 +11.2% 1851 1,533 −0.8% 1856 1,606 +4.8% 1861 1,624 +1.1% 1866 1,601 −1.4% 1872 1,546 −3.4% 1876 1,437 −7.1% 1881 1,152 −19.8% 1886 1,093 −5.1%

Year Pop. ±% 1891 1,101 +0.7% 1896 1,066 −3.2% 1901 1,057 −0.8% 1906 1,090 +3.1% 1911 1,094 +0.4% 1921 991 −9.4% 1926 985 −0.6% 1921 1,061 +7.7% 1936 1,037 −2.3% 1946 1,064 +2.6% 1954 1,038 −2.4% 1962 1,083 +4.3% 1968 1,219 +12.6% 1975 1,533 +25.8% 1982 2,465 +60.8% 1990 2,911 +18.1% 1999 3,242 +11.4% 2008 3,930 +21.2%

See also

• Communes of the Gard department

Further reading

• Chardon, Michel (1975). "L'évolution morphologique des régions à l'Ouest du Rhône entre l'Ardoise et Aramon. Le réseau hydrographique et son évolution au Quaternaire. Versants et cuvettes de la dépression de Pujaut". Revue de géographie alpine (in French). 63 (3): 313–328. doi:10.3406/rga.1975.1424.
• Coulondres, Alfred (1877). "Notice sur la dessèchement des étangs de Rochefort et Pujaut". Mémoires & comptes-rendus de la Société scientifique et littéraire d'Alais (in French). 8 (Année 1876): 15–54.
• Jouffret, Marcel (1992). Pujaut, Mon Village. Nîmes, France: C. Lacour. ISBN 978-2-86971-646-9.

External links

• Village council website (in French)