Coarraze
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | |
| Arrondissement | Pau | |
| Canton | Vallées de l'Ousse et du Lagoin | |
| Community association | Pays de Nay | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 10 ′ N , 0 ° 14 ′ W | |
| height | 258-450 m | |
| surface | 14.84 km 2 | |
| Residents | 2,176 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 147 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 64800 | |
| INSEE code | 64191 | |
| Website | http://www.coarraze.fr/ | |
.JPG) Coarraze Castle |
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Coarraze is a French commune with 2,176 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine . It belongs to the Arrondissement of Pau and the canton of Vallées de l'Ousse et du Lagoin (until 2015: canton of Nay-Est ). Henry of Navarre , later King Henri IV and first Bourbon, spent the first years of his childhood in Coarraze.
geography
The municipality is located on the Gave de Pau River east of Nay . Coarraze is on the Toulouse – Bayonne railway line and shares a railway station with Nay. The Coarraze-Nay station is served by intercity and regional lines from TER Aquitaine and TER Midi-Pyrénées . Neighboring communities are:
- Bénéjacq in the north,
- Mirepeix and Nay in the northwest,
- St. Vincent in the east,
- Igon to the west and
- Montaut in the south.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2011 |
| Residents | 1,720 | 1,940 | 1,949 | 2,202 | 2,047 | 2,068 | 2,104 |
Personalities
- Raymond Pierre Penne (1770–1815), infantry general
- Carl Einstein (1885–1940), German art historian, buried in Coarraze.
Web links
Commons : Coarraze - collection of images, videos and audio files
