Alliat

Alliat is a commune in the Ariège department and Occitanie region in southwestern France.

Alliat
Commune
The entrance to the La Vache Cave
Location of Alliat
Alliat
Alliat
Coordinates: 42°49′05″N 1°35′14″E
CountryFrance
RegionOccitanie
DepartmentAriège
ArrondissementFoix
CantonSabarthès
IntercommunalityPays de Tarascon
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Marie-Françoise Kalandadze
Area
1
3.46 km2 (1.34 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
51
 • Density15/km2 (38/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
09006 /09400
Elevation500–1,268 m (1,640–4,160 ft)
(avg. 560 m or 1,840 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Commune in the "Haute-Ariège" part of the Pyrenees located 15 km from the city of Foix and 5 km from the city of Tarascon-sur-Ariège, in the "Parc naturel régional des Pyrénées ariégeoises".

Population

Inhabitants of Alliat are called Alliatois.

Historical population
YearPop.±%
200565—    
200666+1.5%
200766+0.0%
200864−3.0%
200963−1.6%
201061−3.2%
201159−3.3%
201258−1.7%
201357−1.7%
201455−3.5%
201554−1.8%
201653−1.9%

Sights
  • The "cave of the cow" (grotte de La Vache): with distinctive archeological strata discovered in its entrance and in the "salle Monique", opened to the public in 1979. It produced a remarkably rich collection of prehistorical objects from the Magdalenian era (12,000 to 14,000 years old), including a large number of harpoons and assegai points as well as more than 200 pieces of art: bones, engraved reindeer and red deer antlers, sculpture of animals, sometimes of humans, as well as rare species for that period: panther, bear, wolves, Saiga antelope, birds and salmon.
It was one of the first caves explored in Ariège (Félix Garrigou, in 1866). A second salle was discovered in 1952 and was explored by its discoverer, Romain Robert, until 1964.
  • Fortified cave Spoulgas d’Alliat: located 100 m south of the cave of the cow.[2]

Activities
  • Rock climbing around the caves
  • Horse ridding

See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Maps and descriptions available in "Monographies villageoises en Sabarthès", Florence Guillot, 1999.


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