The arrondissement of Mauriac is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Cantal département in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. Its capital, and subpréfecture of the department, is the city of Mauriac.
History
When the arrondissements were created in 1800, Mauriac was one of them in the Cantal department.
Geography
The arrondissement of Mauriac is in the northwest of the department and has an area of , the smallest and with fewest people living in it with 26,192 inhabitants and a population density of inhabitants/km².
The arrondissement is bordered to the north and west by the Corrèze department (Nouvelle-Aquitaine), to the northeast by the Puy-de-Dôme department, to the east by the arrondissement of Saint-Flour and to the south by the arrondissement of Aurillac.
Composition
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France, cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Mauriac, there is only two cantons where not all their "communes" are in the arrondissement, Naucelles and Riom-ès-Montagnes. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
Communes
The arrondissement of Mauriac has 55 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):
Ally (15003) Anglards-de-Salers (15006) Antignac (15008) Apchon (15009) Arches (15010) Auzers (15015) Barriac-les-Bosquets (15018) Bassignac (15019) Beaulieu (15020) Brageac (15024) Chalvignac (15036) Champagnac (15037) Champs-sur-Tarentaine-Marchal (15038) Chaussenac (15046) Collandres (15052) Drugeac (15063) Escorailles (15064) Fontanges (15070) Jaleyrac (15079) La Monselie (15128) Lanobre (15092) Le Falgoux (15066) Le Fau (15067) Le Monteil (15131) Le Vaulmier (15249) Le Vigean (15261) Madic (15111) Mauriac (15120) Menet (15124) Moussages (15137) Méallet (15123) Pleaux (15153) Riom-ès-Montagnes (15162) Saignes (15169) Saint-Bonnet-de-Salers (15174) Saint-Chamant (15176) Saint-Hippolyte (15190) Saint-Martin-Cantalès (15200) Saint-Martin-Valmeroux (15202) Saint-Paul-de-Salers (15205) Saint-Pierre (15206) Saint-Projet-de-Salers (15208) Saint-Vincent-de-Salers (15218) Saint-Étienne-de-Chomeil (15185) Sainte-Eulalie (15186) Salers (15219) Salins (15220) Sauvat (15223) Sourniac (15230) Trizac (15243) Trémouille (15240) Valette (15246) Vebret (15250) Veyrières (15254) Ydes (15265)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are: