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Rueyres-les-Prés

Summary
Rueyres-les-Prés (ʁɥɛʁ le pʁe; Ruêres-les-Prâts ˈʁɥɛr lɛ ˈpʁɑ) is a former municipality in the district of Broye in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. On 1 January 2017 the former municipalities of Rueyres-les-Prés, Bussy, Estavayer-le-Lac, Morens, Murist, Vernay and Vuissens merged into the new municipality of Estavayer. Rueyres-les-Prés is first mentioned in 1288 as en Ruere. Rueyres-les-Prés had an area, , of . Of this area, or 82.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 2.2% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 14.5% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.9% is either rivers or lakes. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 3.5% and transportation infrastructure made up 10.4%. Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 71.3% is used for growing crops and 10.1% is pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The former municipality is located in the Broye district, on the slopes above the left side of the lower Broye valley. The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Lion rampant Argent langued Gules and armed Or. Rueyres-les-Prés had a population () of 432. , 8.0% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 30.1%. Migration accounted for 25.2%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.4%. Most of the population () speaks French (231 or 98.3%) as their first language, German is the second most common (3 or 1.3%) and Portuguese is the third (1 or 0.4%). the population was 50.3% male and 49.7% female. The population was made up of 143 Swiss men (45.5% of the population) and 15 (4.8%) non-Swiss men. There were 146 Swiss women (46.5%) and 10 (3.2%) non-Swiss women. Of the population in the municipality, 91 or about 38.7% were born in Rueyres-les-Prés and lived there in 2000. There were 76 or 32.3% who were born in the same canton, while 56 or 23.8% were born somewhere else in Switzerland, and 12 or 5.
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