Juvinas

Juvinas
Juvinas
Location within Rhône-Alpes region Juvinas
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ardèche
Arrondissement	Largentière
Canton	Antraigues-sur-Volane
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Jean-Paul Baratier
Area1	8.43 km2 (3.25 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	161
• Density	19/km2 (49/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	07111 / 07600
Elevation	400–1,062 m (1,312–3,484 ft) (avg. 650 m or 2,130 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Juvinas is a commune in the Ardèche department in southern France.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	159	—
1968	181	+13.8%
1975	144	−20.4%
1982	138	−4.2%
1990	153	+10.9%
1999	149	−2.6%
2008	161	+8.1%

Famous features

A meteorite felt in june 1821, on the 15th, whose name therefore became the Juvinas meteorite. It felt in the hamlet of Libonès, at a place called “le Cros du Libonès” (in french). It is a eucrite, coming from Vesta minor planet, the 4th asteroid by size from the main asteroid belt, between Jupiter and Mars. Half of the original recovered fall is still kept in the french national collection of meteorites at MNHN museum, in Paris, France. The remaining was kept in neighborhood family homes, but the lack of transmission of their origin through successive generations ended with the loss, by discarding, of most if not all of these therefore unidentified pieces.

See also

• Communes of the Ardèche department

References

• INSEE