Courgevaux

Courgevaux (kuʁʒəvo; Corgevâlx kɔʁdzəˈvu; Gurwolf) is a municipality in the district of See or district du Lac in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. Courgevaux is first mentioned in 1055 as Corgivul. Courgevaux has an area, , of . Of this area, or 58.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 26.5% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 16.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, industrial buildings made up 2.1% of the total area while housing and buildings made up 6.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.0%. Out of the forested land, 23.5% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.0% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 41.1% is used for growing crops and 15.5% is pastures, while 1.8% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located in the See/Lac district, on the Murten/Morat-Fribourg road. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Sable, a Wolf rampant Argent langued Gules. Courgevaux has a population () of . , 27.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 38.3%. Migration accounted for 35.7%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.9%. A little more than half of the population () speaks German (510 or 56.5%) as their first language, French is the second most common (272 or 40.1%) and Portuguese is the third (36 or 4.0%). There are 29 people who speak Italian. the population was 50.5% male and 49.5% female. The population was made up of 447 Swiss men (36.7% of the population) and 168 (13.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 455 Swiss women (37.4%) and 148 (12.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 194 or about 21.5% were born in Courgevaux and lived there in 2000. There were 201 or 22.3% who were born in the same canton, while 273 or 30.2% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 200 or 22.1% were born outside of Switzerland.