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Vallamand
Summary
Vallamand is a former municipality in the Swiss canton of Vaud in the district of Broye-Vully.
The municipalities of Bellerive, Chabrey, Constantine, Montmagny, Mur, Vallamand and Villars-le-Grand merged on 1 July 2011 into the new municipality of Vully-les-Lacs.
Vallamand is first mentioned in 1246 as Ualamant.
Vallamand has an area, , of . Of this area, or 57.3% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 22.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 19.7% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 1.3% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 11.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 6.8%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 44.0% is used for growing crops and 6.8% is pastures, while 6.4% is used for orchards or vine crops.
The municipality was part of the Avenches District until it was dissolved on 31 August 2006, and Vallamand became part of the new district of Broye-Vully.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Gules, a Grape Bunch Or leafed Vert, in Chief Argent a letter V Sable.
Vallamand has a population () of 393. , 12.7% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 23.2%. It has changed at a rate of 23.2% due to migration and at a rate of 0.3% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (196 or 57.8%), with German being second most common (130 or 38.3%) and English being third (7 or 2.1%). There is 1 person who speaks Italian.
Of the population in the municipality 98 or about 28.9% were born in Vallamand and lived there in 2000. There were 42 or 12.4% who were born in the same canton, while 159 or 46.9% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 30 or 8.8% were born outside of Switzerland.
In there were 6 live births to Swiss citizens and 1 birth to non-Swiss citizens, and in same time span there were 3 deaths of Swiss citizens.
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