Saint-Aubin-Sauges

History

Saint-Aubin-Sauges is first mentioned in 1176 as Sancti Albini. In 1340 it was mentioned as villa de Sauges.

Geography

Saint-Aubin-Sauges has an area, , of . Of this area, or 47.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while or 38.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, or 13.5% is settled (buildings or roads) and or 0.3% is unproductive land. Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 7.8% and transportation infrastructure made up 3.5%. Out of the forested land, 35.0% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.2% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 16.9% is used for growing crops and 13.6% is pastures, while 3.9% is used for orchards or vine crops and 13.4% is used for alpine pastures.

Most-observed species

• European roe deer

  Capreolus capreolus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  8,674
• red fox

  Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) · Mammalia
  5,725
• Meadow Brown

  Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  5,672
• European hare

  Lepus europaeus Pallas, 1778 · Mammalia
  3,887
• Small Tortoiseshell

  Aglais urticae (Linnaeus, 1758) · Insecta
  3,788
• common frog

  Rana temporaria Linnaeus, 1758 · Amphibia
  3,535
• Eurasian beaver

  Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 · Mammalia
  3,351
• Common Toad

  Bufo bufo (Linnaeus, 1758) · Amphibia
  3,051

Most recent

• M 4.1 — 2025-07-21
  4 km E of Frutigen, Switzerland
• M 4.4 — 2023-03-22
  1 km NW of Pont-de-Roide, France
• M 3.3 — 2022-09-25
  7 km ESE of Ar?ches-la-Frasse, France
• M 2.7 — 2022-08-23
  4 km S of Turtmann, Switzerland
• M 4.1 — 2021-12-24
  2 km WSW of Blamont, France
• M 3.4 — 2020-06-23
  11 km ESE of Samoëns, France