Botz-en-Mauges

Part of Mauges-sur-Loire in Pays de la Loire, France

47°18′28″N 1°00′01″W / 47.3078°N 1.0003°W / 47.3078; -1.0003CountryFranceRegionPays de la LoireDepartmentMaine-et-LoireArrondissementCholetCantonSaint-Florent-le-VieilCommuneMauges-sur-Loire Area15.74 km² (6.08 sq mi)Population792 • Density50/km² (130/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal codeElevation11–141 m (36–463 ft)
(avg. 94 m or 308 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Botz-en-Mauges (French pronunciation: [bɔts ɑ̃ moʒ]) is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France. On 15 December 2015, it was merged into the new commune Mauges-sur-Loire.^[2]

Geography

The commune is traversed by the Èvre river.

Population

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% 1793 907 —     1800 735 −19.0% 1806 814 +10.7% 1821 894 +9.8% 1831 810 −9.4% 1836 918 +13.3% 1841 897 −2.3% 1846 924 +3.0% 1851 1,012 +9.5% 1856 1,026 +1.4% 1861 1,060 +3.3% 1866 1,053 −0.7% 1872 1,014 −3.7% 1876 993 −2.1% 1881 979 −1.4% 1886 1,001 +2.2% 1891 974 −2.7% 1896 955 −2.0%

Year Pop. ±% 1901 983 +2.9% 1906 967 −1.6% 1911 950 −1.8% 1921 824 −13.3% 1926 868 +5.3% 1931 832 −4.1% 1936 859 +3.2% 1946 884 +2.9% 1954 903 +2.1% 1962 966 +7.0% 1968 955 −1.1% 1975 871 −8.8% 1982 850 −2.4% 1990 760 −10.6% 1999 665 −12.5% 2006 769 +15.6% 2009 806 +4.8%

Personalities

• Ernestine Chassebœuf

See also

• Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department

References