Aramon, Gard

Aramon
Aramon
Commune
	A view of Aramon
	Coat of arms
	Location of Aramon
	Aramon Aramon
	Coordinates: 43°53′31″N 4°40′54″E / 43.8919°N 4.6816°E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Gard
Arrondissement	Nîmes
Canton	Beaucaire
Intercommunality	Pont du Gard
Government
• Mayor (2022–2026)	Pascale Prat
Area 1	31.16 km2 (12.03 sq mi)
Population (2021)	4,127
• Density	130/km2 (340/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	30012 /30390
Elevation	7–155 m (23–509 ft) ; (avg. 10 m or 33 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Aramon (French pronunciation: [aʁamɔ̃]; Occitan: Aramon) is a commune in the Gard department in southern France near Avignon.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,826	—
1975	1,951	+0.95%
1982	3,027	+6.48%
1990	3,344	+1.25%
1999	3,773	+1.35%
2007	3,840	+0.22%
2012	3,920	+0.41%
2017	4,238	+1.57%
Source: INSEE^[3]

Personalities

Aramon was the birthplace of Henri Pitot (1695–1771), hydraulic engineer and inventor of the Pitot tube, and Shirine Boukli (b. 1999), Olympic judoka. International footballer Younès Belhanda was born in nearby Avignon and raised in Aramon.

Economy

From 1977 until 2016, a thermal power station was operated in Aramon by EDF. It was converted into a photovoltaic power station in 2019. The chimney of the former facility was 252 metres tall, the highest in Europe and one of the tallest structures in France.