AVALLON, an arrondissement in the department of the Yonne, in France, comprehending five cantons and seventy communes. Area, 244,480 acres; pop. 47,524. The capital, of the same name, is a handsome town, finely situated on
a granite rock, at the foot of which flows the river Voisin. It has some manufactures of cloth, hats, hosiery, leather, and paper, and a considerable traffic in fire-wood, which is conveyed by the Voisin, the Yonne, and the Seine, to Paris. Pop. in 1851, 5740. Long. 3. 56. E. Lat. 47. 30. N.