Arrondissement of Ambert


The arrondissement of Ambert is an arrondissement of France in the Puy-de-Dôme department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has 58 communes. Its population is 27,606, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Ambert, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Aix-la-Fayette
  2. Ambert
  3. Arlanc
  4. Auzelles
  5. Baffie
  6. Bertignat
  7. Beurières
  8. Brousse
  9. Le Brugeron
  10. Ceilloux
  11. Chambon-sur-Dolore
  12. Champétières
  13. La Chapelle-Agnon
  14. La Chaulme
  15. Chaumont-le-Bourg
  16. Condat-lès-Montboissier
  17. Cunlhat
  18. Domaize
  19. Doranges
  20. Dore-l'Église
  21. Échandelys
  22. Églisolles
  23. Fayet-Ronaye
  24. La Forie
  25. Fournols
  26. Grandrif
  27. Grandval
  28. Job
  29. Marat
  30. Marsac-en-Livradois
  31. Mayres
  32. Medeyrolles
  33. Le Monestier
  34. Novacelles
  35. Olliergues
  36. Saillant
  37. Saint-Alyre-d'Arlanc
  38. Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine
  39. Saint-Anthème
  40. Saint-Bonnet-le-Bourg
  41. Saint-Bonnet-le-Chastel
  42. Saint-Clément-de-Valorgue
  43. Sainte-Catherine
  44. Saint-Éloy-la-Glacière
  45. Saint-Ferréol-des-Côtes
  46. Saint-Germain-l'Herm
  47. Saint-Gervais-sous-Meymont
  48. Saint-Just
  49. Saint-Martin-des-Olmes
  50. Saint-Pierre-la-Bourlhonne
  51. Saint-Romain
  52. Saint-Sauveur-la-Sagne
  53. Sauvessanges
  54. Thiolières
  55. Tours-sur-Meymont
  56. Valcivières
  57. Vertolaye
  58. Viverols

    History

The arrondissement of Ambert was created in 1800, disbanded in 1926 and restored in 1942. At the January 2017 reorganisation of the arrondissements of Puy-de-Dôme, it gained three communes from the arrondissement of Clermont-Ferrand.
As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Ambert were, as of January 2015:
  1. Ambert
  2. Arlanc
  3. Cunlhat
  4. Olliergues
  5. Saint-Amant-Roche-Savine
  6. Saint-Anthème
  7. Saint-Germain-l'Herm
  8. Viverols