Île-d'Houat

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Île-d'Houat
Enez Houad
Coat of arms of Île-d'Houat
Île-d'Houat (France)
Île-d'Houat
region Brittany
Department Morbihan
Arrondissement Lorient
Canton Quiberon
Community association Auray Quiberon Terre Atlantique
Coordinates 47 ° 23 ′  N , 2 ° 57 ′  W Coordinates: 47 ° 23 ′  N , 2 ° 57 ′  W
height 0-42 m
surface 2.91 km 2
Residents 231 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 79 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 56170
INSEE code 56086
Website www.mairiedehouat.fr

Aerial view of the island

The Ile-d'Houat ( Breton Enez Houad ) is a French island and a community with 231 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the Morbihan department in the region of Brittany .

Location of the island
Treach-er-Goured dune beach
He Yoc'h

The almost three square kilometers large island is located in the Bay of Quiberon , at the entrance to the Gulf of Morbihan .

The island can be reached by boat from Quiberon or from Vannes by catamarans . The island port is Port-Saint-Gildas, a small fishing village. The inhabitants of the island are called Houatais.

description

The dune beach Treach-er-Goured and the viewpoint Beg-er-Vachif are worth seeing. On the island are the menhirs Menhir de Bar-Kreiz, Menhir de Men-Guen, Menhir von Parc-er-Menhir , Menhir du Stade and the Menhirs de Men-Plat. The island is the setting for the crime novel "The Portrait" by the English writer Iain Pears .

The Belle-Île and the Île d'Hœdic are in the neighborhood . Presumably, the island is identical to the island named Siata in ancient geography .

The island forms the municipality of the same name. Most of the population lives in the village in the northeast of the island. The rest of the island is sparsely developed and uninhabited in winter.

The tidal island Er Yoc'h lies off the east coast . The Île aux Chevaux is located off the south coast

Population development (source: INSEE)
year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2007
Residents 446 457 430 390 390 335 293

See also

literature

  • N. Forrer, W. Wirth: The island of Houat . In: Mitteilungen der Geographisch-Ethnographische Gesellschaft Zürich, Volume 26 (1925–1926), pp. 19–34 ( digitized version )
  • Le Patrimoine des Communes du Morbihan. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-84234-009-4 , pp. 842-845.

Web links

Commons : Houat  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Itinerarium Antonini Augusti maritimum 510.1. See also George Long:  Siata . In: William Smith : Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. London 1854.
  2. ↑ Île-d'Houat on the Insee website