Collonges, Switzerland

Collonges (French pronunciation: [kɔlɔ̃ʒ]) is a municipality in the district of Saint-Maurice in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.

[3] Collonges has an area, as of 2009[update], of 12.2 square kilometers (4.7 sq mi).

[4] The municipality is located in the Saint-Maurice district, on the right side of the Rhone.

Azure, on a Saltire Or five Roses Gules barbed Vert and seeded of the second, 2.

Or a Bar wavy Azure in chief three Trefoils slipped Vert in fess.

[8] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (446 or 91.4%) as their first language, Portuguese is the second most common (20 or 4.1%) and Italian is the third (10 or 2.0%).

[11] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][12] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the FDP which received 37.87% of the vote.

In the federal election, a total of 289 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 68.8%.

[14] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 284 votes were cast, of which 13 or about 4.6% were invalid.

[8] There were 232 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 37.5% of the workforce.

In the tertiary sector; 1 was in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 7 or 53.8% were in a hotel or restaurant, 1 was a technical professional or scientist, 3 or 23.1% were in education.

[8] From the 2000 census[update], 386 or 79.1% were Roman Catholic, while 46 or 9.4% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.

Aerial view by Walter Mittelholzer (1927)