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Cheyres
Summary
Cheyres (Chêres, locally Tsêre ˈtsɛʁ(ə) or Tsàrè) is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Cheyres and Châbles merged into the new municipality of Cheyres-Châbles.
Cheyres is first mentioned in 1230 as Cheres.
Cheyres has an area, , of . Of this area, or 42.5% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 35.7% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 14.2% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.0% is either rivers or lakes and or 6.6% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 8.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.9%. while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 1.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 26.5% is used for growing crops and 11.1% is pastures, while 4.9% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.
The municipality is located in the Broye district, on the southern shore of Lake Neuchatel in the extreme western tip of the Estavayer-le-Lac exclave. It consists of the village of Cheyres and the hamlet of Granges-de-Cheyres.
The municipalities of Châbles, Cheyres, Murist, Nuvilly and Vuissens are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality with an, , undetermined name.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Fess bendy Sable and Argent.
Cheyres has a population () of . , 7.1% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 66.3%. Migration accounted for 65.8%, while births and deaths accounted for 1.9%.
Most of the population () speaks French (597 or 86.8%) as their first language, German is the second most common (66 or 9.6%) and Portuguese is the third (10 or 1.5%). There are 3 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
the population was 50.0% male and 50.0% female. The population was made up of 514 Swiss men (45.
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