Péguilhan | |
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Coordinates: 43°18′54″N 0°42′29″E / 43.315°N 0.7081°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Occitania |
Department | Haute-Garonne |
Arrondissement | Saint-Gaudens |
Canton | Saint-Gaudens |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Céline Laurenties Barrere [1] |
Area 1 | 23.58 km2 (9.10 sq mi) |
Population (2021)
[2] | 258 |
• Density | 11/km2 (28/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 ( CET) |
• Summer ( DST) | UTC+02:00 ( CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code |
31412 /31350 |
Elevation | 218–345 m (715–1,132 ft) (avg. 347 m or 1,138 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Péguilhan is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France in the historical region of Gascony. On 1 January 2017, the former commune of Lunax was merged into Péguilhan. [3]
Péguilhan has far-reaching views towards the Pyrenees. It is surrounded by woodland and open countryside and a mixture of arable and livestock farming. Some houses in the area have been bought by British incomers, although the majority in recent times have been Dutch and German.
Year | Pop. | ±% |
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1962 | 313 | — |
1968 | 334 | +6.7% |
1975 | 259 | −22.5% |
1982 | 250 | −3.5% |
1990 | 232 | −7.2% |
1999 | 221 | −4.7% |
2004 | 222 | +0.5% |
2009 | 241 | +8.6% |
2014 | 218 | −9.5% |
It was possibly the birthplace of Aimeric de Peguilhan, a medieval troubadour, although this is debated.
The river Gesse flows northwards through the commune towards the market town of Boulogne-sur-Gesse; the Gimone forms most its western border.
Péguilhan is the setting for Martin Calder's travel memoir A Summer in Gascony, about life on a farm with a local Gascon family, centred on the inn at the end of the village. The book is set in the early 1990s and was published in 2008 by Nicholas Brealey publishing. [4]