Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Saint-Amans-des-Cots is a commune in the Aveyron department in southern France. Aveyron is a department in southern France named after the Aveyron River. Aveyron is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. The first known historical inhabitants of the region were the Rutenii tribe, but the area was inhabited previously to this, boasting many prehistoric ruins.