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Châbles
Summary
Châbles (ʃɑbl; Châbllos, locally Tsâbyo ˈtsɑbjo) is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Châbles and Cheyres merged into the new municipality of Cheyres-Châbles.
Châbles has an area, , of . Of this area, or 52.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 28.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 9.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.2% is either rivers or lakes and or 10.5% is unproductive land.
Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 5.1% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.6%. Out of the forested land, 26.8% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.5% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 38.6% is used for growing crops and 11.2% is pastures, while 2.3% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is in lakes.
The municipality is located in the Broye district near Lake Neuchatel.
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 Tower embattled Argent masoned and windowed Sable between two Mullets of the same pierced, and in base coupeaux Vert.
Châbles has a population () of . , 12.6% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 41.5%. Migration accounted for 34.9%, while births and deaths accounted for 9.4%.
Most of the population () speaks French (426 or 86.8%) as their first language, German is the second most common (50 or 10.2%) and Spanish is the third (5 or 1.0%). There are 3 people who speak Italian and 1 person who speaks Romansh.
the population was 48.1% male and 51.9% female. The population was made up of 268 Swiss men (40.8% of the population) and 48 (7.3%) non-Swiss men. There were 290 Swiss women (44.1%) and 51 (7.8%) non-Swiss women.
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