Nendaz is a municipality in the district of Conthey in the canton of Valais in Switzerland.
[3] Nendaz has an area, as of 2011[update], of 85.9 square kilometers (33.2 sq mi).
It consists of about 15 villages and hamlets including Basse-Nendaz, Haute-Nendaz, Siviez (Super-Nendaz), Bieudron, Aproz, Baar, Brignon and Beuson.
The blazon of the municipal coat of arms is Azure, a Bend Gules between two Pomenranates.
[4] Most of the population (as of 2000[update]) speaks French (5,029 or 94.0%) as their first language, German is the second most common (164 or 3.1%) and Portuguese is the third (45 or 0.8%).
[4] The historical population is given in the following chart:[3][11] In the 2007 federal election the most popular party was the CVP which received 42.83% of the vote.
In the federal election, a total of 2,664 votes were cast, and the voter turnout was 62.4%.
[13] In the 2007 Swiss Council of States election a total of 2,636 votes were cast, of which 172 or about 6.5% were invalid.
[4] There were 2,530 residents of the municipality who were employed in some capacity, of which females made up 40.7% of the workforce.
The number of jobs in the primary sector was 169, of which 149 were in agriculture and 20 were in forestry or lumber production.
In the tertiary sector; 142 or 18.3% were in wholesale or retail sales or the repair of motor vehicles, 79 or 10.2% were in the movement and storage of goods, 190 or 24.5% were in a hotel or restaurant, 2 or 0.3% were in the information industry, 29 or 3.7% were the insurance or financial industry, 82 or 10.6% were technical professionals or scientists, 55 or 7.1% were in education and 59 or 7.6% were in health care.
[4] From the 2000 census[update], 4,609 or 86.1% were Roman Catholic, while 200 or 3.7% belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church.