Barnas

Barnas
Barnas
Commune
	Coat of arms
	Location of Barnas
	Barnas Barnas
	Coordinates: 44°40′07″N 4°10′14″E / 44.6686°N 4.1706°E
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
Area 1	26.51 km2 (10.24 sq mi)
Population (2021)	204
• Density	7.7/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 a commune in the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southern France.^[3]

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Barnassiens or Barnassiennes.^[4]

Geography

Barnas is located some 20 km west by northwest of Aubenas and 30 km east by southeast of Pradelles. Access to the commune is by Route nationale N102 which passes through the centre of the commune and the village from Mayres in the west and continuing to Thueyts in the east. The commune is mostly forest and moderately mountainous. There is a hotel and petrol station in the commune.^[5]^[6]

The Ardèche 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:

The Ruisseau d'Abraham
The Ruisseau des Combes
The Ruisseau de l'Horesson
The Ruisseau de Bournazon
The Ruisseau de Chadenac Ou de Chateau which form the eastern border of the commune.

On the left bank the river is fed by:

The Ruisseau du Grand VaVat
The Rieu Jilieux
The Ruisseau de la Farre
The Ruisseau du Saut which forms the eastern border north of the river.

History

Barnas appears as Barnas on the 1750 Cassini 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 of Thueyts.^[9]

Heraldry

Arms of Barnas	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.