Avignonet is located some 25 km south of Grenoble and 8 km north of Monestier-de-Clermont. Access to the commune is by the A51 autoroute (E712) which passes south through the western arm of the commune and has Exit 13 Sinard on the commune border. Access to the village is by road D110A from Saint-Martin-de-la-Cluze in the north which comes down the western border of the commune to the village. The D110C goes east from Sinard to the dam through the south of the commune. Avignonet station has rail connections to Toulouse, Carcassonne and Narbonne. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Le Cros and Le Mas in the south-east. There are large forests in the east of the commune with the rest of the commune farmland.[3]
The eastern border of the commune is entirely formed by the Drac river and the large artificial Monteynard lake formed by the dam on the Drac river. Several streams rise in the commune and flow east to the lake including the Ruisseau d'Aiguettas, the Ruisseau de Mitraire, the Ruisseau de la Proche, and the Ruisseau des Vaux which forms part of the northern border.[3]
Neighbouring communes and villages
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Administration
List of Successive Mayors[4]
Demography
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Avignonetins or Avignonetines in French.[5] In 2017 the commune had 197 inhabitants. In 1962 its population peaked at 951, which was due to construction workers for the Lac de Monteynard-Avignonet reservoir.[6]
^"Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
^List of Mayors of France Archived 27 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine(in French)
^Le nom des habitants du 38 - Isère Archived 8 December 2015 at the Wayback Machine, habitants.fr
^C. Marie (1963). "Premier bilan du recensement de 1962 dans le département de l'Isère". Revue de Géographie Alpine. 51 (2): 292–293. doi:10.3406/rga.1963.3131. Archived from the original on 19 March 2024. Retrieved 7 May 2024.
^Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Avignonet, EHESS(in French).
^Population en historique depuis 1968 Archived 24 September 2022 at the Wayback Machine, INSEE
13 Sinard on the commune border. Access to the village is by road D110A from Saint-Martin-de-la-Cluze in the north which comes down the western border of the commune to the village. The D110C goes east from Sinard to the dam through the south of the commune. Avignonet station has rail connections to Toulouse, Carcassonne and Narbonne. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Le Cros and Le Mas in the south-east. There are large forests in the east of the commune with the rest of the commune farmland.[3]
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