page_title: Authon, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
section_title: Land use
hierarchical_section_title: Authon, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence / Geography / Land use
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Cabanon à Authon
context_page_description: Authon is a French commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region of south-eastern France.
  The inhabitants of the commune are known as Authoniers or Authonières.
context_section_description: The town has 800 hectares of woods and forests.
  Human occupation is dispersed across the commune in tiny hamlets, mostly in the western part: Les Fabres, le Vivier, Briançon, Bonnet, Lèbre, Théous, Champdolent. Feissal (location of the village in a former commune) and Bastide Blanche are located in the east. There is also a jas in this part, at a little over 1,800 metres: the jas Monges.
  The Vanson Forest is found in the north, south, and east.
caption: A Farm shed
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