Etang de Leucate

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Etang de Leucate
Leucate Village (Aude), Etang de Leucate.jpg
View over the Étang de Leucate
Geographical location Occitania , France
Data
Coordinates 42 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  N , 3 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E Coordinates: 42 ° 51 ′ 0 ″  N , 3 ° 0 ′ 0 ″  E
Étang de Leucate (Occitania)
Etang de Leucate
surface 54 km²
Middle deep 1.7 m
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The Étang de Leucate (also: Étang de Salses , Étang de Salses ou de Leucate , Étang de Salses-Leucate ) is a brackish lake in the south of France , between Leucate and Salses-le-Château . Seen geomorphologically is a lagoon and a lagoon on the balance coast of the Mediterranean Sea between the delta of the Rhone and the Pyrenees fall into the Mediterranean.

The lagoon has an area of ​​approximately 5400 hectares and an average depth of 1.7 meters. In the Leucate area the depth is 1 m, in the Salses area 2 m; the deepest natural area is 3.7 m, the deepest dredged area (in the Graus , the connections to the Mediterranean) 3 to 5 m.

Political geography

The Etang de Leucate is located in the region Okzitanien and extends over the departments of Pyrenees-Orientales and Aude . The following municipalities surround the lagoon: Fitou , Leucate , Le Barcarès , Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque , Saint-Hippolyte and Salses-le-Château .

Tourist importance

Due to its location in a very windy region, the Étang de Leucate is one of the most important windsurfing areas in the French Midi . The shallow water - especially on the Leucate side - offers surfing beginners extensive opportunities to practice, especially since the holiday resorts of Port Leucate have numerous and inexpensive accommodations (compared to the usual costs in southern France).

Economical meaning

The Étang des Leucate is one of the centers of oyster and mussel farming in the south of France , with oyster and mussel farmers operating exclusively in the Leucate district. On the connecting road between Leucate Plage and Port Leucate , at an outflow of the Étang to the sea, there is a Center Ostréicole , where oysters and mussels are sold “fresh from the harvest”.

  • View from the east

  • View from the west

View from Le Barcarès (residence Murano) to the Canigou
Windsurfers on the Étang de Leucate

literature

  • M. Wilke: Lagoon habitats. In: Robert Hofrichter (Ed.): The Mediterranean: Fauna, Flora, Ecology. Volume I, general part. Heidelberg, Spektrum akademischer Verlag, 2001, pp. 326–347, ISBN 3-8274-1050-9
  • C. Neff, A. Scheid: The Mediterranean south of France. Vegetation dynamics and cultural landscape in Languedoc-Roussillon. In: Geographische Rundschau 57, 2005, Issue 9, pp. 38–44

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