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L'Abergement-Clémenciat

L'Abergement-Clémenciat
Commune
L'Abergement-Clémenciat is located in France
L'Abergement-Clémenciat
L'Abergement-Clémenciat
Coordinates: 46°09′07″N 4°55′18″E / 46.1519°N 4.9217°E / 46.1519; 4.9217Coordinates: 46°09′07″N 4°55′18″E / 46.1519°N 4.9217°E / 46.1519; 4.9217
Country France
Region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Ain
Arrondissement Bourg-en-Bresse
Canton Châtillon-sur-Chalaronne
Intercommunality Chalaronne-centre
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Daniel Boulon
Area1 15.95 km2 (6.16 sq mi)
Population (2012)2 777
 • Density 49/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 01001 /01400
Elevation 206–272 m (676–892 ft)
(avg. 240 m or 790 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

L'Abergement-Clémenciat is a commune in the department of Ain and the region of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in eastern Metropolitan France.

The Chalaronne flows west-northwest through the southern part of the commune.

There are 4 communes in Ain with the name of Jura on a river. The other three are Le Petit-Abergement, Le Grand-Abergement, and L'Abergement-de-Varey. It seems to designate agricultural concessions in the 11th-15th centuries.

It was once a large timber plantation.

In 2012, Abergement-Clémenciat had 777 inhabitants (an increase of 8% over 1999). The town occupied the 11,540th place nationally, while it was 11,370th in 1999, and the 197th at the departmental level of 419 municipalities.

Changes in the number of inhabitants is known throughout the population censuses conducted in Abergement and Clémenciat in 1793 and Abergement-Clémenciat since 1861. The maximum population was reached in 2006 with 811 inhabitants.


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