Lavernat
Lavernat | |
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 A view in Lavernat | |
Location of Lavernat | |
  Lavernat Location within France  Lavernat Location within Pays de la Loire | |
| Coordinates: 47°43′02″N 0°20′00″E / 47.7172°N 0.3333°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Pays de la Loire |
| Department | Sarthe |
| Arrondissement | La Flèche |
| Canton | Montval-sur-Loir |
| Intercommunality | Loir-Lucé-Bercé |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Alain Morancais[1] |
Area 1 | 22.9 km2 (8.8 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 586 |
| • Density | 25.6/km2 (66.3/sq mi) |
| Demonym(s) | Lavernais, Lavernaise |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 72160 /72500 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Lavernat (French pronunciation: [lavɛʁna]) is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays de la Loire in north-western France.
Geography
Lavernat is a commune in the southern part of the Sarthe department, located in the Haut-Maine region (specifically the "Maine blanc"), 37 kilometres (23 mi) south of Le Mans and 50 kilometres (31 mi) north of Tours.
Neighbouring communes
The neighbouring communes are:
- North-East: Beaumont-Pied-de-Bœuf
- East: Luceau
- South-East: Montabon
- South: Vaas
- West: Verneil-le-Chétif
- North-West: Mayet
Climate
Several studies have been conducted to characterize the climatic conditions across mainland France. In 2010, the climate of the commune was classified as a degraded oceanic climate of the Central and Northern plains according to a study by the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) based on data covering the period 1971–2000.[3] In 2020, the predominant climate was classified as Csb (Köppen climate classification), representing a warm-summer Mediterranean climate / temperate climate with a dry and fresh summer for the 1988–2017 period.[4]
Furthermore, Météo-France places the commune in a transition zone between oceanic and altered oceanic climates, within the "Moyenne vallée de la Loire" climatic region, characterized by good sunshine hours (1,850 hours/year) and relatively dry summers.[5] For the 1971–2000 period, the average annual temperature was 11.1 °C (52.0 °F), with an annual temperature range of 15 °C. The average annual rainfall total was 755 millimetres (29.7 in). For the 1991–2020 period, the nearest standard meteorological station, located 16 kilometres (10 mi) away in Saint-Christophe-sur-le-Nais, recorded an annual average temperature of 12.1 °C (53.8 °F) and an annual rainfall total of 682.2 millimetres (26.9 in).[6]
Urbanism
Typology
As of January 2024, Lavernat is categorized as a rural commune with dispersed habitat under the communal density grid defined by INSEE. It is located outside of any urban unit. However, the commune forms part of the multi-commune catchment area (aire d'attraction) of Montval-sur-Loir, which includes 12 communes and is categorized among areas with fewer than 50,000 inhabitants.[7]
Land use
The land use of the commune, according to the Corine Land Cover (CLC) database, is dominated by agricultural land (52.4% in 2018, down from 53.8% in 1990). The detailed breakdown for 2018 is as follows: forests (42.3%), arable land (19.9%), meadows (19.8%), heterogeneous agricultural areas (11.5%), scrub or herbaceous vegetation areas (4%), urbanized zones (1.4%), and permanent cultures (1.1%).[8]
See also
References
- ↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ↑ "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
- ↑ Daniel Joly; Thierry Brossard; Hervé Cardot; Jean Cavailhes; Mohamed Hilal; Pierre Wavresky (18 June 2010). "Les types de climats en France, une construction spatiale". Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography (in French) (501). doi:10.4000/cybergeo.23155.
- ↑ Vincent Dubreuil (February 2022). "Le changement climatique en France illustré par la classification de Köppen". La Météorologie (in French) (116). doi:10.37053/lameteorologie-2022-0012.
- ↑ "Le climat en France hexagonale et Corse" (in French). meteofrance.com.
- ↑ "Station Météo-France « Saint-Christophe-sur-le-Nais », commune de Saint-Christophe-sur-le-Nais - fiche climatologique" (PDF) (in French).
- ↑ "Liste des communes composant l'aire d'attraction de Montval-sur-Loir" (in French). Insee.
- ↑ "CORINE Land Cover (CLC) - Répartition des superficies en 15 postes d'occupation des sols" (in French).
