Aunat

Aunat
Commune
A general view of Aunat
Coat of arms
Location of Aunat
Aunat Aunat
Coordinates: 42°47′41″N 2°05′46″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Aude
Arrondissement	Limoux
Canton	La Haute-Vallée de l'Aude
Intercommunality	CC Pyrénées Audoises
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Christophe Piquemal
Area 1	10.62 km2 (4.10 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	62
• Density	5.8/km2 (15/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	11019 /11140
Elevation	593–1,200 m (1,946–3,937 ft) (avg. 936 m or 3,071 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Aunat (French pronunciation: [onat] ) is a commune in the Aude department in the Occitanie region of southern France.

Geography

Aunat is located some 60 km west by north-west of Perpignan and 25 km east by north-east of Ax-les-Thermes. Access to the commune is by the D20 road from Rodome in the west which passes through the village and continues east to Bessède-de-Sault. The D29 road comes from Fontanès-de-Sault in the south and passes through the length of the commune and the village before continuing north-west to join the D107 north-east of Belfort-sur-Rebenty. The commune is mostly rugged and forested but with farmland in the valley around the village.

The Ruisseau du Mouillou rises in the north-east of the commune and flows west gathering several tributaries from the north including the Ruisseau du Bernet and the Ruisseau de Valmajou before joining the Ruisseau de Romanis on the western border of the commune.

Heraldry

Arms of Aunat

Blazon: Or, an alder tree eradicated of Gules.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name
2001	2008	Lucien Faure
2008	2014	Jean Séguéla
2014	2020	Henri Vaquer
2020	2026	Christophe Piquemal

Demography

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aunatois or Aunatoises in French.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 354 —     1800 331 −0.96% 1806 435 +4.66% 1821 481 +0.67% 1831 507 +0.53% 1836 514 +0.27% 1841 495 −0.75% 1846 498 +0.12% 1851 494 −0.16% 1856 442 −2.20% 1861 473 +1.36% 1866 474 +0.04% 1872 469 −0.18% 1876 429 −2.20% 1881 428 −0.05% 1886 411 −0.81% 1891 405 −0.29% 1896 439 +1.63%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 403 −1.70% 1906 339 −3.40% 1911 313 −1.58% 1921 253 −2.11% 1926 253 +0.00% 1931 218 −2.93% 1936 208 −0.93% 1946 200 −0.39% 1954 172 −1.87% 1962 150 −1.70% 1968 134 −1.86% 1975 119 −1.68% 1982 82 −5.18% 1990 55 −4.87% 1999 52 −0.62% 2007 49 −0.74% 2012 40 −3.98% 2017 67 +10.87%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

Notable people linked to the commune

The paternal side of Edgar Faure originated from this commune for many generations before 1850.

See also

• Communes of the Aude department

External links

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