Cannet

Cannet
local community	Riscle
region	Occitania
Department	Gers
Arrondissement	Mirande
Coordinates	43 ° 37 ' N , 0 ° 3' E Coordinates: 43 ° 37 ' N , 0 ° 3' E
Post Code	32400
Former INSEE code	32074
Incorporation	1st January 2019
status	Commune déléguée

Cannet ( Gascon : Canet) is a village and a commune déléguée in the French commune Riscle with 55 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Gers department in the Occitania region (previously Midi-Pyrénées ).

geography

Cannet is located around 21 kilometers southeast of the small town of Aire-sur-l'Adour in the west of the Gers department on the border with the Hautes-Pyrénées department . It belongs to the Madiran wine region . The most important bodies of water are the Boscassé stream and several ponds. The most important supra-regional transport connection is the A65 autoroute (part of Europastraße 7 ), a few kilometers west of the municipality . The closest bus stops are in Cahuzac-sur-Adour and Castelnau-Rivière-Basse (bus route 940 Mont-de-Marsan - Aire-sur-l'Adour - Tarbes).

The municipality of Cannet was surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Riscle in the north, Cahuzac-sur-Adour in the northeast, Goux in the east, Saint-Lanne (in the Hautes-Pyrénées department) in the south and Maumusson-Laguian in the west.

history

Cannet is historically located within Gascony and belongs to the Rivière-Basse region . From 1793 to 1801, the municipality of Cannet belonged to the Nogaro district and the Riscle canton . From 1801 to 2015 it was assigned to the Canton of Plaisance .

The municipality of Cannet merged with Riscle to form the Commune nouvelle Riscle on January 1, 2019 . It belonged to the arrondissement of Mirande and the canton of Adour-Gersoise .

Population development

year	1793	1800	1806	1821	1851	1872	1881	1896	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2017
Residents	173	334	183	182	278	162	214	202	91	67	63	58	53	55	52	55
Sources: Cassini and INSEE