La Bastide-du-Salat

La Bastide-du-Salat
Commune
Location of La Bastide-du-Salat
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Coordinates: 43°03′24″N 0°59′14″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Ariège
Arrondissement	Saint-Girons
Canton	Portes du Couserans
Intercommunality	Couserans-Pyrénées
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Véronique Rousseau[1]
Area ^1	6.6 km^2 (2.5 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	202
• Density	31/km^2 (79/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	09041 /09160
Elevation	295–464 m (968–1,522 ft) (avg. 370 m or 1,210 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

La Bastide-du-Salat (French pronunciation: [la bastid dy salat]; Occitan: Era Bastida deth Salat) is a commune in the Ariège department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.^[3]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Salatois or Salatoises.^[4]

Geography

La Bastide-du-Salat is located some 22 km east by south-east of Saint-Gaudens and 12 km north-west of Saint-Girons. The northern and western borders of the commune are also the departmental border with Haute-Garonne. Access to the commune is by the D134 road from Lacave in the south. The D134A continues north from the village becoming the D83H at the departmental border and on to Touille. The D60F goes west from the village across the Salat to Castagnède. The western third of the commune is farmland while the rest is heavily forested.^[5][6]

The Salat river forms the entire western border of the commune as it flows north to join the Garonne at Roquefort-sur-Garonne. The Ruisseau de la Monge rises in the far east of the commune and flows north-east to join the Lavin west of Betchat.^[5][6]

History

Founded in 1250 by Raymon-Athon, Lord of Prat, for two centuries it was called Bastida Raimondi-Athonis de Aspello.

La Bastide-du-Salat appears as la Baftide du Salat on the 1750 Cassini Map^[7] and la Basudo on the 1790 version.^[8]

Administration

List of Successive Mayors^[9]

From	To	Name
2001	2014	Bernard Soum
2014	2020	Michèle Colin
2020	2026	Véronique Rousseau

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 182 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 412 —     1800 437 +0.85% 1806 477 +1.47% 1821 459 −0.26% 1831 511 +1.08% 1836 531 +0.77% 1841 561 +1.11% 1846 535 −0.94% 1851 506 −1.11% 1856 443 −2.62% 1861 407 −1.68% 1866 383 −1.21% 1872 407 +1.02% 1876 404 −0.18% 1881 353 −2.66% 1886 362 +0.50% 1891 369 +0.38% 1896 358 −0.60%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 335 −1.32% 1906 343 +0.47% 1911 330 −0.77% 1921 294 −1.15% 1926 265 −2.06% 1931 241 −1.88% 1936 244 +0.25% 1946 209 −1.54% 1954 211 +0.12% 1962 220 +0.52% 1968 218 −0.15% 1975 180 −2.70% 1982 160 −1.67% 1990 147 −1.05% 1999 171 +1.69% 2007 193 +1.52% 2012 198 +0.51% 2017 182 −1.67%
Source: EHESS[10] and INSEE[11]

Culture and heritage

Religious heritage

The Parish Church of Notre-Dame-de-l'Assomption contains several items that are registered as historical objects:

• 6 Candlesticks (18th century)^[12]
• A Ciborium (19th century)^[13]
• A Statue: Christ on the Cross (16th century)^[14]
• A Painting: Christ in the Tomb (1842)^[15]

Notable people linked to the commune

• André Cantenys, French filmmaker, born in La Bastide-du-Salat in 1920.

See also

• Communes of the Ariège department
• Couserans

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. INSEE commune file
4. Inhabitants of Ariège (in French)
5. La Bastide-du-Salat on Google Maps
6. La Bastide-du-Salat on the Géoportail from National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
7. la Baftide du Salat on the 1750 Cassini Map
8. la Basudo on the 1790 Cassini Map
9. List of Mayors of France (in French)
10. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet La Bastide-du-Salat, EHESS (in French).
11. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
12. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM09000109 6 Candlesticks (in French)
13. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM09000108 Ciborium (in French)
14. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM09000107 Statue: Christ on the Cross (in French)
15. Ministry of Culture, Palissy PM09000141 Painting: Christ in the Tomb (in French)