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Chamoson
Summary
Chamoson is a municipality in the district of Conthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
Chamoson is first mentioned in 1050 as Camusia. In 1233 it was mentioned as Scamosun.
Chamoson has an area, , of . Of this area, or 24.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 31.1% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 7.1% is settled (buildings or roads), or 1.7% is either rivers or lakes and or 35.2% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.9%. Out of the forested land, 25.3% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 1.1% is used for growing crops and 1.8% is pastures, while 15.9% is used for orchards or vine crops and 6.0% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 6.5% is unproductive vegetation and 28.6% is too rocky for vegetation.
The municipality is located on the right side of the Rhone. It consists of the settlements of Chamoson, Saint-Pierre-de-Clages and Grugnay as well as the spring pasture camp of Mayens-de-Chamoson.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Quarterly Argent and Gules.
Chamoson has a population () of . , 14.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 20.8%. It has changed at a rate of 21.6% due to migration and at a rate of -0.4% due to births and deaths.
Most of the population () speaks French (2,340 or 93.7%) as their first language, German is the second most common (53 or 2.1%) and Portuguese is the third (43 or 1.7%). There are 23 people who speak Italian.
the gender distribution of the population was 48.5% male and 51.5% female. The population was made up of 1,219 Swiss men (40.2% of the population) and 251 (8.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 1,338 Swiss women (44.1%) and 226 (7.4%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality 1,338 or about 53.
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