Barbazan, Haute-Garonne


Barbazan is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.
The inhabitants of the commune are known as Barbazanais or Barbazanaises.

Geography

Barbazan is a Spa town in the Comminges region located some 13 km south-west of Saint-Gaudens and 12 km north of Cierp-Gaud. The western border of the commune is also the departmental border between Haute-Garonne and Hautes-Pyrénées. Access to the commune is by Route nationale N125 which comes from the end of the A645 autoroute and passes down the western side of the commune south to Ore. The D26E road comes from Labroquère in the north-west and passes through the north of the commune ending in the village. The D26 comes from Valcabrère in the west and passes through the village continuing to Sauveterre-de-Comminges in the east. The D33D and the D33L go south from the village to join the N125. The commune has extensive forests in the east with some farmland in the west.
The Garonne river forms most of the western border of the commune as it flows north, passing through Toulouse, to eventually join the Dordogne to form the Gironde estuary at Bordeaux. Lake Barbazan, north-west of the village at 452 m above sea level, is of glacial origin. It is surrounded by moraine deposits: sub-glacial moraine from Cumania and rocky outcrops of moraine west of the Lake. The Ruisseau de Corp flows west from the lake to join the Garonne.

Neighbouring communes and villages

Heraldry

Administration

List of Successive Mayors
FromToName
17921800Mathieu Monserbe
18001809Joseph Dulac
18091815Bertrand Monserie
18151818Pierre Lapeyrade
18181822Jean-Jacques Marie d'Astorg
18221828Nicolas Bourbon
18281832Jean-Marie Bon
18321840Jean Dulac
18401843Jean Pujole
18431847Jean-Mathieu Descaillaux
18471848Jean Mondon
18481852Gilles Mondon
18521871Jean-Louis Gilles Mondon
18711890Théophile Dulac
18901924Romain Dombernard
19241937Mathieu Allemane

;Mayors from 1937
FromToNamePartyPosition
19371944Baptiste Foucadet
19441947André Casteix
19471947Bertrand Fourcade
19471957Pierre Pujole
19571960Jacques Vollant
19601972Paul Bertrand
19721977Henri Fontagneres
19771985Georges Guichard
19851989Jean Serny
19892014Henri Galy
20142020Michelle Stradere

Demography

In 2010 the commune had 447 inhabitants. The evolution of the number of inhabitants is known from the population censuses conducted in the commune since 1793. From the 21st century, a census of communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants is held every five years, unlike larger communes that have a sample survey every year.

Sites and monuments

Barbazan has two sites that are registered as historical monuments:
;Other sites of interest