Allières

Allières
Commune
The road into Allières
Allières
Location within Occitanie region  Allières
Coordinates: 43°02′14″N 1°22′00″E / 43.0372°N 1.3667°E / 43.0372; 1.3667Coordinates: 43°02′14″N 1°22′00″E / 43.0372°N 1.3667°E / 43.0372; 1.3667
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Ariège
Arrondissement	Saint-Girons
Canton	Couserans Est
Intercommunality	Seronnais 117
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Denis Puech
Area1	9.1 km2 (3.5 sq mi)
Population (2014)2	71
• Density	7.8/km2 (20/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	09007 /09240
Elevation	347–652 m (1,138–2,139 ft) (avg. 550 m or 1,800 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Alliérasois or Alliérasoises

Allières is located in the Plantaurel mountains in the Natural Regional Park of Pyrénées ariégeoises some 22 km west by north-west of Foix and some 70 km south of Toulouse. Access to the commune is by the minor D49 road which runs north from the D117 road through the commune and the village and continuing north across the mountains to join the D119 near Maury. There is also access by a minor road from the east. Apart from the village there is also the hamlet of Escougnale. The commune is heavily forested with a few farms.

Numerous streams rise in the commune mostly flowing north to the Ruisseau de Mourisse which forms the northern border of the commune and flows west to join the Arize river near Maury. There is also the Ruisseau de Peydalières rising in the west of the commune which flows west also to join the Arize.

List of Successive Mayors

(Not all data is known)

In 2009 the commune had 62 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known through the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger towns that have a sample survey every year.

Sources : Ldh/EHESS/Cassini until 1962, INSEE database from 1968 (population without double counting and municipal population from 2006)

The Parish Church of Saint Roche contains two items that are registered as historical objects:

The Falentin Saintenac family has many dead in their chapel adjoining the church.