Cuon, Maine-et-Loire

Cuon
Cuon
Location within Pays de la Loire region  Cuon
Administration
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Maine-et-Loire
Arrondissement	Saumur
Canton	Baugé
Intercommunality	Canton of Baugé
Mayor	Joël Millet (2001–2008)
Statistics
Elevation	36–91 m (118–299 ft) (avg. 54 m/177 ft)
Land area1	13.13 km2 (5.07 sq mi)
Population2	481  (1999)
- Density	37 /km2 (96 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	49116/ 49150
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Coordinates: 47°28′44″N 0°06′01″W / 47.4788888889°N 0.100277777778°W / 47.4788888889; -0.100277777778

Cuon is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.

History

Cuon was the site of settlements during the Neolithic and Gallo-Roman periods. It was a seigneurie and parish in the eleventh century.

Sights

• Menhir de Pierrefitte
• Château de La Graffinière (fifteenth century), restored during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
• Old manors (farms) of Cussé, Vaux, La Genneveselière (sixteenth century)

See also

• Communes of the Maine-et-Loire department