Mérens-les-Vals (;

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: ''Merens las Vals'') is a commune in the Ariège department in southwestern

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Geography

Mérens-les-Vals, as its name implies, has several valleys. The village is at the confluence of three valleys: Ariège, Nabre and Morgoulliou. The village has a train station ( Mérens-les-Vals station) on the Portet-Saint-Simon–Puigcerdà railway. The night train from

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stops here. The journey taking about nine hours. There are six local trains a day to Toulouse, this journey takes 2 hours and 15 minutes.

Population

Inhabitants are called ''Mérengois''.

References

Communes of Ariège (department) Ariège communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia {{Ariège-geo-stub

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