Créchets
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Créchets Creishèths |
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Hautes-Pyrénées | |
| Arrondissement | Bagneres-de-Bigorre | |
| Canton | La Vallée de la Barousse | |
| Community association | Neste Barousse | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 0 ′ N , 0 ° 35 ′ E | |
| height | 487-1,041 m | |
| surface | 0.97 km 2 | |
| Residents | 56 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 58 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 65370 | |
| INSEE code | 65154 | |
Créchets ( Gascon Creishèths ) is a French municipality with 56 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Hautes-Pyrénées in the region Okzitanien ; it belongs to the Arrondissement of Bagnères-de-Bigorre and the municipality of Neste Barousse . Its inhabitants call themselves Créchetois / Créchetoises .
geography
Créchets is located around 48 kilometers southeast of the city of Tarbes in the east of the Hautes-Pyrénées department. The community consists of the village of Créchets, the hamlet of Les Graves and several individual farms. Large parts of the community are mountainous and forested. The highest point of the municipality is near the Pic de Cau in the west of the municipality. The Ourse crosses the municipality in a northerly direction and forms the eastern municipal boundary. In terms of traffic, the municipality is located on the D160 a few kilometers west of the N125 .
history
The place is (indirectly) mentioned as de Crepellis for the first time in the year 1387 in the church register of Comminges. In the Middle Ages, the place was within the county of Barousse in the Armagnac region , which in turn was part of the Gascogne province. The parish belonged to the district La Barthe from 1793 to 1801. In addition, Créchets was within the canton of Mauléon-Barousse from 1793 to 2015 . The municipality has been part of the Bagnères-de-Bigorre arrondissement since 1801.
Population development
| year | 1793 | 1806 | 1821 | 1851 | 1946 | 1954 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2014 |
| Residents | 61 | 156 | 136 | 214 | 49 | 68 | 52 | 47 | 41 | 38 | 30th | 35 | 37 | 47 |
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Attractions
- Saint-Christophe village church
- Wayside cross on the route des moulins
- Commemorative plaque for the fallen
