Samatan

Samatan
Samatan
Commune
	Samatan Town Hall
	Coat of arms
	Location of Samatan
	Samatan Samatan
	Coordinates: 43°29′37″N 0°55′54″E / 43.4936°N 0.9317°E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Gers
Arrondissement	Auch
Canton	Val de Save
Intercommunality	Savès
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Hervé Lefebvre
Area 1	33.53 km2 (12.95 sq mi)
Population (2023)	2,517
• Density	75.07/km2 (194.4/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	32410 /32130
Elevation	155–252 m (509–827 ft) ; (avg. 165 m or 541 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Samatan (French pronunciation: [samatɑ̃]) is a commune in the Gers department in the Occitania region in Southwestern France. Culturally and historically, the commune is part of the Savès, a province of Gascony. It is situated 36 km southwest of Toulouse, residing within Toulouse's functional area, a statistical area used by INSEE to designate metropolitan areas. Samatan has an oceanic climate and has a remarkable natural patrimony, having multiple Zones naturelles d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique, a type of natural environment recognized by France.^[2]^[3] The inhabitants are called Samatanais or Samatanaises in French.

Geography

Samatan	Quarterly, gules with four silver otelles placed in saltire, and of the first with three gold fleur-de-lis sceptres placed in pale and arranged in fess, on a chief sewn of France.