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Ayent is a municipality in the district of Hérens in the canton of Valais in Switzerland. The Ayent area is first mentioned in 1052 as Agent. In 1250 it was mentioned as Argenta. Ayent has an area, , of . Of this area, or 18.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 24.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 4.6% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.4% is either rivers or lakes and or 50.7% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.6%. Out of the forested land, 20.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.5% is used for growing crops and 5.2% is pastures, while 3.2% is used for orchards or vine crops and 10.0% is used for alpine pastures. Of the water in the municipality, 1.1% is in lakes and 0.2% is in rivers and streams. Of the unproductive areas, 8.2% is unproductive vegetation, 39.6% is too rocky for vegetation and 3.0% of the land is covered by glaciers. The municipality is located on a high terrace on the right side of the Rhone river. It consists of the villages and hamlets of Botyre, Luc, Saxonne, La Place, Blignou, Fortunau, Saint-Romain, Signèse, Villa, Argnou and the tourist development of Anzère (which was built in 1969). There is no Ayent village in the municipality. The reservoir Lac de Tseuzier is located on the border with Icogne. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure a Lion rampant Or langued and armed Gules holding in dexter a sword Argent. Ayent has a population () of . , 10.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009) the population has changed at a rate of 11.6%. It has changed at a rate of 12.4% due to migration and at a rate of 0% due to births and deaths. Most of the population () speaks French (2,808 or 93.6%) as their first language, German is the second most common (83 or 2.8%) and Portuguese is the third (41 or 1.4%).

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