Silhac

Silhac is a commune in the Ardèche department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of southern France.

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Silhac
Commune
Church of Our Lady of the Assumption
Location of Silhac
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Coordinates: 44°52′56″N 4°36′27″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ardèche
Arrondissement	Privas
Canton	Rhône-Eyrieux
Intercommunality	CA Privas Centre Ardèche
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Philippe Gibaud^[1]
Area ¹	22.71 km² (8.77 sq mi)
Population (2022)^[2]	399
• Density	18/km² (46/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	07314 /07240
Elevation	270–880 m (890–2,890 ft) (avg. 600 m or 2,000 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Climate

In 2010, the climate of the commune was a altered Mediterranean climate type, according to a French National Centre for Scientific Research study based on a series of data covering the period 1971-2000.^[3] The average annual temperature is 10.3 °C , with an annual temperature range of 17 °C . The average annual cumulative precipitation is 1,048 mm , with 7.7 days of precipitation in January and 5.4 days in July.^[3]

In 2020, Météo-France published a typology of the climates of metropolitan France in which the commune is in classified as a transition zone between the mountain climate and the Mediterranean climate and is in the Middle Rhône Valley climatic region. The region is characterized by good sunshine in the summer (fraction of insolation > 60%), a high annual temperature amplitude (4 to 20 °C), dry air in all seasons, stormy in summer, strong winds (mistral), and high rainfall in autumn (250 to 300 mm).^[4]

Hydrography

The Dunière, a 24 km^[5] watercourse which runs alongside the municipal territory, is a tributary of the Eyrieux, a river which borders the southern part of its territory.

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Population

More information Year, Pop. ...

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	371	—
1968	487	+31.3%
1975	353	−27.5%
1982	337	−4.5%
1990	286	−15.1%
1999	312	+9.1%
2008	340	+9.0%

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Climate

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Administration

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References

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