Confignon

Geschichte

Confignon is a municipality of the Canton of Geneva, Switzerland.HistoryConfignon is first mentioned in 1153 as Cofiniacum. The current, independent municipality was created in 1851 when the former municipality of Onex-Confignon divided into the municipalities of Onex and Confignon.GeographyConfignon has an area, of 2.77km2. Of this area, 1.3km2 or 46.9% is used for agricultural purposes, while 0.23km2 or 8.3% is forested. Of the rest of the land, 1.19km2 or 43.0% is settled (buildings or roads), 0.03km2 or 1.1% is either rivers or lakes.Of the built up area, housing and buildings made up 25.6% and transportation infrastructure made up 7.9%. Power and water infrastructure as well as other special developed areas made up 2.2% of the area while parks, green belts and sports fields made up 6.9%. Out of the forested land, 5.4% of the total land area is heavily forested and 2.9% is covered with orchards or small clusters of trees. Of the agricultural land, 28.2% is used for growing crops and 5.8% is pastures, while 13.0% is used for orchards or vine crops. All the water in the municipality is flowing water. The municipality is located along the left side of the Rhone river. The municipality of Confignon consists of the sub-sections or villages of Le Coteau, Confignon - village, Cressy - Evaux, Cressy - Sur-le-Beau, Narly - Lécherette, Plaine-de-l'Aire - Les Charrotons and Plaine-de-l'Aire - Champs-Blancs.DemographicsConfignon has a population of., 16.9% of the population are resident foreign nationals. Over the last 10 years (1999–2009 ) the population has changed at a rate of 37.8%. It has changed at a rate of 33.5% due to migration and at a rate of 4.5% due to births and deaths.