Albaret-le-Comtal

Albaret-le-Comtal
Coat of arms
Albaret-le-Comtal
Location within Languedoc-Roussillon region Albaret-le-Comtal
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Lozère
Arrondissement	Mende
Canton	Fournels
Intercommunality	Hautes Terres
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Clément Donnadieu
Area1	29.56 km2 (11.41 sq mi)
Population (2009)2	2,001
• Density	68/km2 (180/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	48001 / 48310
Elevation	740–1,161 m (2,428–3,809 ft) (avg. 1,000 m or 3,300 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.

Albaret-le-Comtal is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1793	817	—
1800	560	−31.5%
1806	765	+36.6%
1821	828	+8.2%
1831	609	−26.4%
1836	795	+30.5%
1841	697	−12.3%
1846	754	+8.2%
1851	792	+5.0%
1856	719	−9.2%
1861	637	−11.4%
1866	695	+9.1%
1872	637	−8.3%
1876	661	+3.8%
1881	662	+0.2%
1886	644	−2.7%
1891	547	−15.1%
1896	543	−0.7%
1901	585	+7.7%
1906	576	−1.5%
1911	599	+4.0%
1921	519	−13.4%
1926	510	−1.7%
1931	503	−1.4%
1936	513	+2.0%
1946	459	−10.5%
1954	351	−23.5%
1962	349	−0.6%
1968	303	−13.2%
1975	273	−9.9%
1982	248	−9.2%
1990	227	−8.5%
1999	198	−12.8%
2006	195	−1.5%
2009	201	+3.1%

Economy

The village lies at the foot of a hydroelectric plant. The plant was built between 1916 and 1919 to supply energy to the hydrometallurgic factory at nearby Saint-Chély-du-Tarn.

See also

• Communes of the Lozère department

External links

• INSEE statistics

• INSEE commune file