Broquiès (French pronunciation: [bʁɔkjɛs]; Occitan: Broquièrs) is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France.

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Broquiès
Commune
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Coordinates: 44°00′21″N 2°41′47″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Aveyron
Arrondissement	Millau
Canton	Raspes et Lévezou
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean-Luc Crassous[1]
Area 1	37.99 km2 (14.67 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	610
• Density	16/km2 (42/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	12037 /12480
Elevation	243–738 m (797–2,421 ft) (avg. 367 m or 1,204 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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The commune is in the Raspes de Tarn; on both banks of the river Tarn. The village is on the north bank where the land rises steeply from the Tarn (243 metres (797 ft)) to the Lévézou plateau (600 metres (2,000 ft)). On each side of the village are streams that have cut deep valley. An strategically important road from Saint-Izaire and Saint-Affrique crosses the Tarn at le Navech, and uses the valley to the east to zig-zag upwards through Vieux Broquies to the promontory(350 metres (1,150 ft)- 400 metres (1,300 ft)) where the main village is located. Here the road heads along the valley side to Rodez, Le Truel and Villefranche-de-Panat.^[3][4] On the south bank the Dourdou de Camarès flows into the Tarn.

There was an artistic neolithic population in the area (3000BC). The Menhir de la Coste, now on display in the Fenaille Museum in Rodez occurred to the north of the commune adjacent to the ancient road (D25). It has been replaced by a replica.^[6] By 1000BC the area was occupied by Iron Age Celts called the 'broccos'. The Carolingians wrote of an incident at Broquiès fixing the date of the foundation of the village to around 800 AD.^[7]

The population peaked around 1886 with 2067 inhabitants. Through rural de-population it was down to 1316 in 1945.

In the past the soil has been exploited by the peasant farmers for all types of crop, today it is principally used as pasture for milking sheep for the cheese producers in Roquefort and for vineyards for Cotes de Tarn red wine.

• Communes of the Aveyron department