Mérens-les-Vals

Not to be confused with Mérens.

Mérens-les-Vals
The church in Mérens-les-Vals The church in Mérens-les-Vals
Mérens-les-Vals
Location within Midi-Pyrénées region Mérens-les-Vals
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Ariège
Arrondissement	Foix
Canton	Ax-les-Thermes
Intercommunality	Vallées d'Ax
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-Pierre Sicre
Area1	80.12 km2 (30.93 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	186
• Density	2.3/km2 (6.0/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	09189 / 09110
Elevation	929–2,840 m (3,048–9,318 ft) (avg. 1,050 m or 3,440 ft)
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.

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

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 hours and 15 minutes.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	114	—
1968	195	+71.1%
1975	157	−19.5%
1982	143	−8.9%
1990	149	+4.2%
1999	180	+20.8%
2008	186	+3.3%

Inhabitants are called Mérengois.

See also

• Communes of the Ariège department
• Mérens horse

References

• INSEE