Artigue
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 A general view of Artigue | |
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 Location of Artigue | |
  Artigue Location within France  Artigue Location within Occitanie | |
| Coordinates: 42°49′59″N 0°37′14″E / 42.8331°N 0.6206°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Occitania |
| Department | Haute-Garonne |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Gaudens |
| Canton | Bagnères-de-Luchon |
| Intercommunality | CC Pyrénées Haut-Garonnaises |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Marcel Cau[1] |
Area 1 | 9.72 km2 (3.75 sq mi) |
| Elevation | 1,250 m (4,100 ft) |
| Highest elevation | 2,081 m (6,827 ft) |
| Lowest elevation | 840 m (2,760 ft) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 36 |
| • Density | 3.7/km2 (9.6/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 31019 /31110 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Artigue (French pronunciation: [aʁtiɡ]; Occitan: Artiga) is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.
Name
[edit]The pre-Latin word artica gave rise to the Gascon word artiga, a term which designates land cleared to make it cultivable.
In Occitan, the town is called Artiga.
Geography
[edit]The commune of Artigue is located in the Haute-Garonne department, in the Occitanie, and borders Spain (Catalonia).
It is 109 km as the crow flies from Toulouse, the department's prefecture, 32 km from Saint-Gaudens, the sub-prefecture, and 5 km from Bagnères-de-Luchon, the central office for the canton of Bagnères-de-Luchon, on which the commune has depended for departmental elections since 2015. The commune is also part of the greater Bagnères-de-Luchon area.
The nearest communes are: Salles-et-Pratviel (1.2 km), Antignac (1.7 km), Sode (1.8 km), Moustajon (2.7 km), Gouaux-de-Luchon (2.7 km), Juzet-de-Luchon (2.7 km), Cier-de-Luchon (3.3 km), and Baren (4.1 km).
Historically and culturally, Artigue is part of the Comminges region, corresponding to the former County of Comminges, a district of the province of Gascony located in the present-day departments of Gers, Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées, and Ariège.
Artigue borders three other French communes and, to the east, two Spanish municipalities. These neighboring municipalities are Bausen, Gouaux-de-Luchon, Les, Salles-et-Pratviel, and Sode.
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Local culture and heritage
[edit]- Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in Artigue. The church is believed to date from the 10th century.[3]
- Viewpoint towards the Pyrenees mountain range and the Luchon valley.
The church of Artigue.
Its bell tower-wall.
House with a thatched roof.
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Population
[edit]| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 31 | — |
| 1975 | 21 | −5.41% |
| 1982 | 20 | −0.69% |
| 1990 | 25 | +2.83% |
| 1999 | 34 | +3.48% |
| 2007 | 34 | +0.00% |
| 2012 | 32 | −1.21% |
| 2017 | 30 | −1.28% |
| 2023 | 36 | +3.09% |
| Source: INSEE[4] | ||
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ↑ "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
- ↑ "Recherche: base de données - église paroissiale Saint-Pierre et Saint-Paul - Artigue - Haute-Garonne : patrimoines.laregion.fr". patrimoines.laregion.fr (in French). Retrieved 18 May 2020.
- ↑ Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023, INSEE
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