Aulos | |
Arrondissement: | Foix |
Canton: | Haute-Ariège |
Commune: | Aulos-Sinsat |
Insee: | 09028 |
Postal Code: | 09310 |
Coordinates: | 42.7933°N 1.6758°W |
Elevation M: | 612 |
Elevation Min M: | 513 |
Elevation Max M: | 968 |
Area Km2: | 1.04 |
Population: | 54 |
Population Date: | 2021 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Aulos is a former commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of south-western France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Aulos-Sinsat.[2]
Aulos is located some 12 km south-east of Tarascon-sur-Ariège and 22 km north-west of Ax-les-Thermes. Access to the commune is by Route nationale 20 from Sinsat in the north-west passing through the north of the commune and continuing south-east to Luzenac. Access to the village is by the D522 road which branches off the N20 in the commune and goes south-east through the village continuing to Les Cabannes. A railway line passes through the commune with the nearest station at Les Cabannes. Most of the commune is heavily forested with a strip of farmland along the N20 and the D522.[3]
The river Ariège forms the whole eastern border of the commune with no tributaries passing through the commune.[3]
List of Successive Mayors[4]
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aulosois or Aulosoises in French.[5]