Founex

History

Signs of Roman-era inhabitation were found near Le Gachet. The first appearance of the village was in 1224 under the name Fosnay. In 2002, Founex and 8 other villages formed the area called the Terre Sainte, although a formalisation of such union into a legal unification was rejected by the Founex general council on 30 August 2010.

Geography

Founex has an area, , of . Of this area, or 65.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 2.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 32.2% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 24.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 5.0%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 1.5% of the area Out of the forested land, all of the forested land area is covered with heavy forests. Of the agricultural land, 35.7% is used for growing crops and 4.4% is pastures, while 25.1% is used for orchards or vine crops. It consists of the village of Founex and the hamlets of Châtaigneraie and Le Gachet.

Most-observed species

• Yellow-legged hornet

  Vespa velutina Lepeletier, 1836 · Insecta
  7,522
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  5,776
• House Sparrow

  Passer domesticus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  5,503
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  5,167
• Mallard

  Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  5,049
• Eurasian Coot

  Fulica atra Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  4,788
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  4,623
• Mute Swan

  Cygnus olor (J.F.Gmelin, 1789) · Aves
  4,273

Most recent

• M 3.6 — 2026-01-12
  4 km SSW of Les Houches, France
• M 3.3 — 2025-05-06
  8 km W of Chapareillan, France
• M 3.2 — 2024-05-09
  9 km SW of Evolène, Switzerland
• M 3.3 — 2022-09-25
  7 km ESE of Ar?ches-la-Frasse, France
• M 4.5 — 2022-03-12
  3 km S of Faverges, France
• M 3.4 — 2020-06-23
  11 km ESE of Samoëns, France