Le Monastier-Pin-Moriès

Le Monastier-Pin-Moriès
Part of Bourgs-sur-Colagne
The former house of the prior, now the town hall
Coat of arms
Location of Le Monastier-Pin-Moriès
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Coordinates: 44°30′56″N 3°15′19″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Lozère
Arrondissement	Mende
Canton	Chirac
Commune	Bourgs-sur-Colagne
Area ^1	19.30 km^2 (7.45 sq mi)
Population  (2019)[1]	948
• Density	49/km^2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code	48100
Elevation	570–1,053 m (1,870–3,455 ft) (avg. 610 m or 2,000 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Le Monastier-Pin-Moriès (French pronunciation: [lə mɔnastje pɛ̃ mɔʁjɛs]; Occitan: Lo Monastièr) is a former commune in the Lozère département in southern France.^[2] It was created in 1974 by the merger of two former communes: Le Monastier and Pin-Moriès.^[3] On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Bourgs-sur-Colagne.^[4]

Geography

The Colagne flows southward through the eastern part of the commune, forms part of its south-eastern border, then flows into the Lot, which forms part of the commune's southern border.

See also

• Communes of the Lozère department

References

1. Téléchargement du fichier d'ensemble des populations légales en 2019, INSEE
2. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Le Monastier-Pin-Moriès, EHESS (in French).
3. Modifications aux circonscriptions administratives territoriales (fusion de communes), Journal officiel de la République française n° 0067, 17 March 1974, p. 3086.
4. Arrêté préfectoral 15 December 2015