Mérens-les-Vals should not be confused with Mérens.
Mérens-les-Vals | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Mérens-les-Vals (Ariège).svg |
Arrondissement: | Foix |
Canton: | Haute-Ariège |
Insee: | 09189 |
Postal Code: | 09110 |
Mayor: | Jean-Pierre Sicre[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Coordinates: | 42.6589°N 1.8369°W |
Elevation M: | 1050 |
Elevation Min M: | 929 |
Elevation Max M: | 2840 |
Area Km2: | 80.12 |
Mérens-les-Vals (pronounced as /fr/; 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.
Inhabitants are called Mérengois.