Péguilhan is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France in the historical region of Gascony. On 1 January 2017, the former commune of Lunax was merged into Péguilhan.^[3]

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Péguilhan
Commune
The church in Péguilhan
Coat of arms
Location of Péguilhan
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Coordinates: 43°18′54″N 0°42′29″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Haute-Garonne
Arrondissement	Saint-Gaudens
Canton	Saint-Gaudens
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Céline Laurenties Barrere[1]
Area 1	23.58 km2 (9.10 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	258
• Density	11/km2 (28/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	31412 /31350
Elevation	218–345 m (715–1,132 ft) (avg. 347 m or 1,138 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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Péguilhan has far-reaching views towards the Pyrenees. It is surrounded by woodland and open countryside and a mixture of arable and livestock farming. Some houses in the area have been bought by British incomers, although the majority in recent times have been Dutch and German.

It was possibly the birthplace of Aimeric de Peguilhan, a medieval troubadour, although this is debated.

The river Gesse flows northwards through the commune towards the market town of Boulogne-sur-Gesse; the Gimone forms most its western border.

• Interior of the church
• Château de Villeneuve

Péguilhan is the setting for Martin Calder's travel memoir A Summer in Gascony, about life on a farm with a local Gascon family, centred on the inn at the end of the village. The book is set in the early 1990s and was published in 2008 by Nicholas Brealey publishing.^[4]

• Communes of the Haute-Garonne department