Mérens-les-Vals

Not to be confused with Mérens.

Mérens-les-Vals
Mérens-les-Vals
Administration
Country	France
Region	Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Ariège
Arrondissement	Foix
Canton	Ax-les-Thermes
Intercommunality	Vallées d'Ax
Mayor	Jean-Pierre Sicre (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	929–2,840 m (3,048–9,320 ft) (avg. 1,050 m/3,440 ft)
Land area1	80.12 km2 (30.93 sq mi)
Population2	186  (2008)
- Density	2 /km2 (5.2 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	09189/ 09110
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 42°39′32″N 1°50′13″E / 42.6588888889°N 1.83694444444°E / 42.6588888889; 1.83694444444

Mérens-les-Vals is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France. Its demonym is Mérengois.

Population

Historical population of Mérens-les-Vals

1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2008
114	195	157	143	149	180	186

Geography

Mérens-les-Vals, as its name implies, has several valleys. The village is at the confluence of three valleys: Ariège, Nabre and Morgoulliou. The village has a train station (Gare de Mérens-les-Vals) on the Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway. The night train from Gare d'Austerlitz, Paris to Latour-de-Carol stops here. The journey taking about nine hours. There are six local trains a day to Toulouse, this journey takes 2 hrs 15mins.

See also

• Communes of the Ariège department
• Mérens horse

References

• INSEE