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Commune in Occitanie, France

Not to be confused with Mérens.

Commune in Occitania, France

Mérens-les-Vals
Commune
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Coordinates: 42°39′32″N 1°50′13″E / 42.6589°N 1.8369°E / 42.6589; 1.8369
Country France
Region Occitania
Department Ariège
Arrondissement Foix
Canton Haute-Ariège
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026) Jean-Pierre Sicre[1]
Area1 80.12 km2 (30.93 sq mi)
Population (2022)[2] 168
• Density 2.1/km2 (5.4/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

Mérens-les-Vals (French pronunciation: [meʁɛ̃s le vals]; Languedocien: Merens las Vals) is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France.

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 (Mérens-les-Vals station) 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.

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.

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.