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Barnas | |
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.svg) Coat of arms | |
Location of Barnas  | |
  Barnas  Barnas | |
| Coordinates:44°40′07″N4°10′14″E / 44.6686°N 4.1706°E /44.6686; 4.1706 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Ardèche |
| Arrondissement | Largentière |
| Canton | Haute-Ardèche |
| Intercommunality | Ardèche des Sources et Volcans |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2023–2026) | Lynda Bouet[1] |
Area 1 | 26.51 km2 (10.24 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 207 |
| • Density | 7.8/km2 (20/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 07025 /07330 |
| Elevation | 431–1,494 m (1,414–4,902 ft) (avg. 464 m or 1,522 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Barnas (French pronunciation:[baʁnas]) is acommune in theArdèchedepartment in theAuvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southernFrance.[3]
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Barnassiens or Barnassiennes.[4]
Barnas is located some 20 km west by northwest ofAubenas and 30 km east by southeast ofPradelles. Access to the commune is byRoute nationale N102 which passes through the centre of the commune and the village fromMayres in the west and continuing toThueyts in the east. The commune is mostly forest and moderately mountainous. There is a hotel and petrol station in the commune.[5][6]
TheArdèche river flows through the commune from west to east parallel to the highway. There are a number of tributaries that feed into the river in the commune. On the right bank from west to east these are:
On the left bank the river is fed by:
Neighbouring communes and villages[5] | |
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Barnas appears asBarnas on the 1750Cassini Map[7] but does not appear at all on the 1790 version.[8] The commune Barnas was created in 1913 from part of the commune ofThueyts.[9]
| Blazon: Party per bend, at 1 a branch in pale with three apples to dexter 2 and 1; at 2 a mount of two hillocks mounted on a terrace in base charged with Bars gemelle wavy and a fess wavy in chief; over all a bend charged with 6 roundels in bend. |
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| From | To | Name | Party |
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| 1959 | 2001 | René Vidal | PCF |
| 2001 | 2020 | Joel Laurent | |
| 2020 | 2023 | Jean-Luc Vidal | |
| 2023 | current | Lynda Bouet[1] |
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