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Lovatens

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Lovatens

Total population

140

Elevation712 m
Land area3.45 km²
Coordinates46.69°, 6.86°

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City facts

Elevation
712 m
Area
3.45 km²
head of government
Claude Ogay
Official website
www.lovatens.ch

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Overview

Lovatens is a municipality in the district Broye-Vully in the canton of Vaud in Switzerland.

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History & geography

History

Lovatens is first mentioned between 996 and 1017 as Lovatingis.

Geography

Lovatens has an area, , of . Of this area, or 78.1% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 17.9% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 3.7% is settled (buildings or roads). Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.4% and transportation infrastructure made up 2.3%. Out of the forested land, 16.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 1.4% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 60.8% is used for growing crops and 17.0% is pastures. The municipality is located to the right of the Broye river. It consists of the village of Lovatens and the hamlets of Colans and Prassy.

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Geography

Latitude
46.6918
Longitude
6.8642
Water area
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Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Climate

Air quality

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Wildlife & biodiversity

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Notable people from here

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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)
24
Avg daily Wikipedia views
1
Attention level
Obscure

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Official Identifiers

BFS — Swiss Federal Statistical Office

BFS-Nr
5674
Population (Wikidata)
146
Wikidata
Q68754

Gemeindenummer via Wikidata P771

Sources

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