Allières | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Saint-Girons |
Canton: | Couserans Est |
Insee: | 09007 |
Postal Code: | 09240 |
Mayor: | Denis Puech[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Couserans-Pyrénées |
Coordinates: | 43.0372°N 1.3667°W |
Elevation M: | 550 |
Elevation Min M: | 347 |
Elevation Max M: | 652 |
Area Km2: | 9.1 |
Allières (in French pronounced as /aljɛʁ/; Occitan (post 1500);: Alhèras) is a commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of southwestern France.
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.[2]
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.[2]
List of Successive Mayors[3]
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Alliérasois or Alliérasoises in French.[4]
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.