Chat (Isère)

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Chat
Chat (France)
Chat
region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department Isère
Arrondissement Grenoble
Canton Le Sud Grésivaudan
Community association Saint-Marcellin Vercors Isère Communauté
Coordinates 45 ° 11 ′  N , 5 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 45 ° 11 ′  N , 5 ° 17 ′  E
height 164-443 m
surface 22.81 km 2
Residents 2,512 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 110 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 38160
INSEE code
Website www.commune-chatte.fr

Chatte town center

Chat is a commune with 2,512 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in Isère in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Grenoble and the canton of Le Sud Grésivaudan (until 2015: canton of Saint-Marcellin ). The inhabitants are called Chattois .

geography

Chatte is about 38 kilometers west of Grenoble on the Merdaret river , in the historic Dauphiné landscape . The Isère delimits the municipality in the southeast. Chatte is surrounded by the neighboring municipalities of Saint-Appolinard and Chevrières in the north, Saint-Marcellin in the east, Saint-Romans in the southeast, La Sône in the south, Saint-Hilaire-du-Rosier in the southwest, and Saint-Bonnet-de-Chavagne in the west and south-west and Saint-Antoine-l'Abbaye to the west and north-west.

The A 49 autoroute runs through the municipality .

Population development

year 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2017
Residents 1705 1737 1892 2040 2347 2442 2543 2512

Attractions

  • Chapel of Sainte-Philomène
  • Les Pauvres castle from the 15th century
  • Galicière silk weaving, monument historique since 2004

Community partnerships

Chatte maintains parish partnerships with the following parishes:

  • Brettheim in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, since 2002
  • Roncone (since 2016 part of the municipality of Sella Giudicarie ) in Trentino (Trentino-South Tyrol region), since 1998
  • Szczygłów (a village in the municipality of Biskupice) in the Lesser Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Personalities

Web links

Commons : Chatte  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files