Vicdessos | |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Vicdessos (Ariège).svg |
Arrondissement: | Foix |
Canton: | Sabarthès |
Commune: | Val-de-Sos |
Insee: | 09334 |
Postal Code: | 09220 |
Coordinates: | 42.7706°N 1.4992°W |
Elevation M: | 705 |
Elevation Min M: | 652 |
Elevation Max M: | 1585 |
Area Km2: | 6.01 |
Population: | 420 |
Population Date: | 2021 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Vicdessos (in French pronounced as /vikdəso/; Occitan (post 1500);: Vic de Sòs) is a former commune in the Ariège department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Val-de-Sos.[2]
The area of Vicdessos is about 6.01 km2 with a minimum elevation of 652 meters and a maximum elevation of 1585 meters.
This Pyrenean town lies in the Natural regional park of Pyrenées ariégoises in the Vicdessos valley, at the feet of the Montcalm mountains.
Vicdessos is 15 km from Tarascon-sur-Ariège and 95 km from Toulouse.
Inhabitants of Vicdessos are called Vicdessosiens in French.