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Cronay

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Cronay

Total population

352

Coordinates46.76°, 6.70°

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City facts

Overview

Cronay is a municipality in the district of Jura-Nord Vaudois of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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History & geography

History

Cronay is first mentioned in 1142 as Crosnai.

Geography

Cronay has an area, , of . Of this area, or 61.0% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 32.6% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 5.8% is settled (buildings or roads), or 0.5% is either rivers or lakes and or 0.2% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 2.3% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.0%. Out of the forested land, 31.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.1% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 53.4% is used for growing crops and 6.2% is pastures, while 1.4% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. It consists of the village of Cronay and the hamlets of La Baumaz, La Crausaz and Planchamps. The municipalities of Cronay, Cuarny, Pomy, Ursins, Valeyres-sous-Ursins and Villars-Epeney are considering a merger on at a date in the future into the new municipality with an, , undetermined name.

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Geography

Latitude
46.7572
Longitude
6.6966
Water area
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Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

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Geography & sun

Avg solar (kWh/m²/day)
3.59
Annual solar (kWh/m²)
1,309

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

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Public attention

Wikipedia views (last 30 days)
22
Avg daily Wikipedia views
1
Attention level
Obscure

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Official Identifiers

BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office

BFS-Nr
5910
Population (Wikidata)
385
Wikidata
Q57122

Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771

Sources

  • • Wikipedia
  • • Open-Meteo / sunrise-sunset.org
  • • Wikipedia Pageviews API
  • • BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office — Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771