Alliat

Alliat
Commune
The entrance to the La Vache Cave
Alliat
Location within Occitanie region
Alliat
Coordinates: 42°49′05″N 1°35′14″E / 42.8181°N 1.5872°E / 42.8181; 1.5872Coordinates: 42°49′05″N 1°35′14″E / 42.8181°N 1.5872°E / 42.8181; 1.5872
Country France
Region Occitanie
Department Ariège
Arrondissement Foix
Canton Sabarthès
Intercommunality Pays de Tarascon
Government
 • Mayor (2014-2020) Marie-Françoise Kalandadze
Area1 3.46 km2 (1.34 sq mi)
Population (2014)2 55
 • Density 16/km2 (41/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 09006 /09400
Elevation 500–1,268 m (1,640–4,160 ft)
(avg. 560 m or 1,840 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.

Alliat is a commune in the Ariège department and Occitanie region in southwestern France.

Geography

Commune in the "Haute-Ariège" part of the Pyrenees located 15 km from the city of Foix and 5 km from the city of Tarascon-sur-Ariège, in the "Parc naturel régional des Pyrénées ariégeoises".

Population

Inhabitants of Alliat are called Alliatois.

Historical population
YearPop.±%
180696—    
1851129+34.4%
185697−24.8%
1901106+9.3%
192181−23.6%
194655−32.1%
196267+21.8%
196871+6.0%
197568−4.2%
198265−4.4%
199055−15.4%
199962+12.7%
200864+3.2%

Sights

  • The "cave of the cow" (grotte de La Vache): with distinctive archeological strata discovered in its entrance and in the "salle Monique", opened to the public in 1979. It produced a remarkably rich collection of prehistorical objects from the Magdalenian era (12,000 to 14,000 years old), including a large number of harpoons and assegai points as well as more than 200 pieces of art: bones, engraved reindeer and red deer antlers, sculpture of animals, sometimes of humans, as well as rare species for that period: panther, bear, wolves, Saiga antelope, birds and salmon.
It was one of the first caves explored in Ariège (Félix Garrigou, in 1866). A second salle was discovered in 1952 and was explored by its discoverer, Romain Robert, until 1964.
  • Fortified cave Spoulgas d’Alliat: located 100 m south of the cave of the cow.[1]

Activities

  • Rock climbing around the caves
  • Horse ridding

See also

References

  1. ↑ Maps and descriptions available in "Monographies villageoises en Sabarthès", Florence Guillot, 1999.


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