Cestas
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Gironde | |
| Arrondissement | Bordeaux | |
| Canton | Pessac-1 | |
| Community association | Jalle-Eau-Bourde | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 45 ′ N , 0 ° 41 ′ W | |
| height | 33-67 m | |
| surface | 99.57 km 2 | |
| Residents | 16,922 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 170 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 33610 | |
| INSEE code | 33122 | |
| Website | http://www.mairie-cestas.fr | |
Cestas is a French municipality with 16,922 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the Gironde department in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . The city is located in the Arrondissement of Bordeaux and in the Canton of Pessac-1 .
Cestas is about 15 kilometers southwest of Bordeaux .
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2016 |
| Residents | 2960 | 3548 | 6445 | 13,730 | 16,768 | 16,927 | 16,674 | 16,781 |
| Source: Cassini and INSEE | ||||||||
economy
The community is home to the Cestas solar park , which was the largest solar park in Europe when it was officially commissioned in December 2015. It covers a good two square kilometers and has a peak output of 300 megawatts .
Architectural monuments
See: List of Monuments historiques in Cestas
Town twinning
There is a twinning with the town of Licata in Sicily, as well as with the towns of Reinheim in Hesse and Fürstenwalde / Spree in Brandenburg (Germany).
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Gironde. Flohic Éditions, Volume 1, Paris 2001, ISBN 2-84234-125-2 , pp. 728-729.
Web links
Commons : Cestas - collection of images, videos and audio files
Individual evidence
- ^ Christian Schubert: A French place in the sun. faz.net, December 1, 2015, accessed December 1, 2015