Bas-Intyamon

Geschichte

Bas-Intyamon is a municipality in the district of Gruyère in the canton of Fribourg in Switzerland. The villages of Enney, Estavannens and Villars-sous-Mont formed it.GeographyBas-Intyamon has an area, of 33.3km2. Of this area, 16.22km2 or 48.7% is used for agricultural purposes, while 13.25km2 or 39.8% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 0.92km2 or 2.8% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.19km2 or 0.6% is either rivers or lakes and 2.69km2 or 8.1% is unproductive land.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 1.2% and transportation infrastructure made up 1.1%. Out of the forested land, 34.6% of the total land area is heavily forested and 3.6% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 0.5% is used for growing crops and 10.3% is pastures and 37.9% is used for alpine pastures. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. Of the unproductive areas, 4.7% is unproductive vegetation and 3.4% is too rocky for vegetation.DemographicsBas-Intyamon has a population of., 11.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (2000–2010) the population has changed at a rate of 17%. Migration accounted for 18.2%, while births and deaths accounted for 2.4%.Most of the population speaks French (95.3%) as their first language, German is the second most common (2.1%) and Albanian is the third (1.5%).