Arabaux

Arabaux
Commune
Arabaux Community Hall
Location of Arabaux
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Coordinates: 42°59′09″N 1°38′37″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Ariège
Arrondissement	Foix
Canton	Val d'Ariège
Intercommunality	Pays de Foix
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Claude Dupuy
Area 1	4.59 km2 (1.77 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	80
• Density	17/km2 (45/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	09013 /09000
Elevation	395–826 m (1,296–2,710 ft) (avg. 500 m or 1,600 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Arabaux is a commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Arabausois or Arabausoises

Geography

Arabaux is some 20 km south of Pamiers and 2 km north-east of Foix to which urban area it belongs. National Highway N20 passes through the south-western corner of the commune partly in a tunnel but it has no exit in the commune with the nearest exit No. 10 south of Saint-Jean-de-Verges. The D1 road goes from Foix through the south of the commune and continues east to Carla-de-Roquefort. Access to the village is by country roads - one from the NR20 Exit 10 and one from the D1 on the eastern border. The commune is heavily forested in the centre and west with the rest of the land farmland.

The Alses river passes through the centre of the commune from east to west then turns north forming part of the western border to join the Ariège near the NR20 Exit 10. The Ruisseau d'Araboux rises west of the village and flows north-west to join the Ariege.

History

Bernard de Lordat, co-lord of Lordat, received Arabaux in around 1250, after an exchange with the count of Foix and thus became the lord.

Administration

Arabaux Church

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1804	1808	Jean Duran
1810	1812	Dominique Rouch
1813	1813	Pierre Rouch
1816	1819	François Azam Coustant
1823	1828	Dominique Rouch
1853	1853	Pierre Rouch
1877	1878	Jean Melet
1884	1892	Jean-Baptiste Marfaing
2001	2020	Michel Rouch

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 76 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 142 —     1800 159 +1.63% 1806 151 −0.86% 1821 152 +0.04% 1831 154 +0.13% 1836 170 +2.00% 1841 167 −0.36% 1846 180 +1.51% 1851 183 +0.33% 1856 163 −2.29% 1861 173 +1.20% 1866 180 +0.80% 1872 149 −3.10% 1876 170 +3.35% 1881 127 −5.67% 1886 122 −0.80% 1891 114 −1.35% 1896 115 +0.17%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 120 +0.85% 1906 104 −2.82% 1911 91 −2.64% 1921 72 −2.31% 1926 75 +0.82% 1931 80 +1.30% 1936 68 −3.20% 1946 62 −0.92% 1954 62 +0.00% 1962 36 −6.57% 1968 47 +4.54% 1975 37 −3.36% 1982 55 +5.83% 1990 47 −1.95% 1999 54 +1.55% 2007 63 +1.95% 2012 55 −2.68% 2017 76 +6.68%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

See also

• Communes of the Ariège department

External links

• Arabaux on the National Geographic Institute website (in French)
• Arabaux on Lion1906
• Arabaux on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Arabaux on the 1750 Cassini Map