Mauriac, Cantal

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Commune of Mauriac
Location
Longitude	02° 20' 03" E
Latitude	45° 13' 11" N
Administration
Country	France
Region	Auvergne
Department	Cantal (sous-préfecture)
Arrondissement	Mauriac
Canton	Mauriac
Mayor	Gérard Leymonie (2001-2008)
Statistics
Altitude	351 m–760 m (avg. 722 m)
Land area¹	27.61 km²
Population² (1999)	4,019
- Density (1999)	145/km²
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	15120/ 15200
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel).

Mauriac is a town and commune of central France, capital of an arrondissement in the département of Cantal, 39 m. N.N.W. of Aurillac by rail.

Mauriac, built on the slope of a volcanic hill, has a church of the 12th century, and the buildings of an old abbey now used as public offices and dwellings; the town owes its origin to the abbey, founded during the 6th century.

It is the seat of a sub-prefect and has a tribunal of first instance and a communal college. There are marble quarries in the vicinity.

[Mauriac Basilica:[1],[2]]

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• This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.