Quintal, Haute-Savoie
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Quintal | |
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 .jpg) .JPG) Left to right, top to bottom : the Church of the Visitation of Quintal ; the "Croix ronde" wayside cross ; a view on the Semnoz mountain from Quintal's center. | |
.svg) Coat of arms | |
Location of Quintal  | |
  Quintal  Quintal | |
| Coordinates: 45°50′28″N 6°05′07″E / 45.8411°N 6.0853°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes |
| Department | Haute-Savoie |
| Arrondissement | Annecy |
| Canton | Annecy-4 |
| Intercommunality | CA Grand Annecy |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Patrick Bosson[1] |
Area 1 | 9.11 km2 (3.52 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 1,252 |
| • Density | 140/km2 (360/sq mi) |
| Demonym | Quintalis / Quintalise |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 74219 /74600 |
| Elevation | 585–1,533 m (1,919–5,030 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Quintal (French pronunciation: [kɛ̃tal] ⓘ; Arpitan: Kintâ) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France.
On the south-south-east side of the commune sits the Semnoz mountain. The village is on the border between the Arrondissement of Annecy and the Albanais, which it was historically a part of. It borders the communes of Sevrier, Saint-Jorioz, Viuz-la-Chiésaz and Seynod (the latter being a former commune merged with Annecy).
It is a rural community with an economy focused on agriculture and local artisanship, with most inhabitants working throughout the Annecy's agglomération, the economic growth of Annecy is a driving factor for the demography of the commune of Quintal.
