Arboussols

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Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Prades
Canton	Sournia
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes Vinça Canigou
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Étienne Surjus
Area1	14.08 km2 (5.44 sq mi)
Population (2012)2	101
• Density	7.2/km2 (19/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	66007 / 66320
Elevation	242–1,004 m (794–3,294 ft) (avg. 593 m or 1,946 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Arboussols (Catalan: Arboçols) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Arboussols is located in the canton of Sournia and in the arrondissement of Prades.

Map of Arboussols and its surrounding communes

Government and politics

Mayors

Mayor	Term start	Term end
Éloi Aubert	1983	1989
Jean-Claude Delseny	2001	2014
Étienne Surjus	2014

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	137	—
1800	146	+6.6%
1806	139	−4.8%
1821	153	+10.1%
1831	198	+29.4%
1836	225	+13.6%
1841	219	−2.7%
1846	227	+3.7%
1851	205	−9.7%
1856	198	−3.4%
1861	186	−6.1%
1866	179	−3.8%
1872	212	+18.4%
1876	229	+8.0%
1881	229	+0.0%
1886	191	−16.6%
1891	220	+15.2%
1896	207	−5.9%
1901	202	−2.4%
1906	202	+0.0%
1911	189	−6.4%
1921	147	−22.2%
1926	143	−2.7%
1931	133	−7.0%
1936	138	+3.8%
1946	113	−18.1%
1954	129	+14.2%
1962	125	−3.1%
1968	104	−16.8%
1975	85	−18.3%
1982	81	−4.7%
1990	79	−2.5%
1999	95	+20.3%
2006	101	+6.3%
2009	104	+3.0%

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department

References

• INSEE