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Le Chaffaut-Saint-Jurson
Commune
A barn in the village of Le Chaffaut-Saint-Jurson
Coat of arms
Location of Le Chaffaut-Saint-Jurson
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Coordinates: 44°02′20″N 6°09′03″E / 44.0389°N 6.1508°E / 44.0389; 6.1508
Country	France
Region	Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Department	Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Arrondissement	Digne-les-Bains
Canton	Riez
Intercommunality	CA Provence-Alpes
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Claude Estienne [1]
Area 1	36.2 km2 (14.0 sq mi)
Population  (2021) [2]	691
• Density	19/km2 (49/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 ( CET)
• Summer ( DST)	UTC+02:00 ( CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	04046 /04510
Elevation	470–960 m (1,540–3,150 ft) (avg. 584 m or 1,916 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Chaffaut-St-Jurson (French pronunciation: [lə ʃafo sɛ̃ ʒyʁsɔ̃]; Occitan: Lo Chafauc e Sant Jurson) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France.

Geography

The village is located at an altitude of 584 meters, in the valley of the Bléone.

The differents commune adjacent to Le Chauffaut-Saint-Jurson are Aiglun, Digne-les-Bains, Châteauredon, Mézel, Saint-Jeannet, Malijai, Mirabeau, Mallemoisson.

Toponymy

The locality of Chaffaut appeared for the first time in the textes between 1064 and 1079 (in Kadalfucho ). The term comes from the north- occitan translating cadalfac, naming a house with an outside staircase and a balcony according to Ernest Nègre, from catafalicum, meaning scaffold or siege tower according to Bénédicte and Jean-Jacques Fénié.

Saint-Jurson is a deformation of the name of the holy patron saint of the church, saint Georges, apostle of the Velay.

Population

See also

• Communes of the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department

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