Asnières-sur-Blour
Asnières-sur-Blour
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Location of Asnières-sur-Blour | |
| Coordinates: 46°09′54″N 0°48′04″E / 46.165°N 0.8011°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Department | Vienne |
| Arrondissement | Montmorillon |
| Canton | Lussac-les-Châteaux |
| Intercommunality | CC Vienne Gartempe |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Maryse Legrand |
Area 1 | 32.49 km2 (12.54 sq mi) |
| Population (2022) | 189 |
| • Density | 5.8/km2 (15/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 86011 /86430 |
| Elevation | 163–232 m (535–761 ft) (avg. 210 m or 690 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Asnières-sur-Blour (French: [ɑnjɛʁ syʁ bluʁ]; Occitan: Asnieras) is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France. The commune has 180 inhabitants (2019).
Asnières-sur-Blour is located roughly halfway between the cities of Limoges and Poitiers. Its land is formed by a 3 percent of steep and grisp valleys, 38% of clay soils in the Seuil du Poitou upland, pink granite soils (21%), diorite soils (22%) and leucogranite soils (22%) in the surrounding "hillock arch". The land is skimed by a 15 chilometers fluviale creek of which 5 km belongs to the French river Blourde. The climate is oceanic with moderate hot and dry summers, slowly raining in the fall and with no excessively cold winters.