Haute-Loire department

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Haute Loire
Coat of arms of the Haute-Loire department
Finistère Côtes-d’Armor Ille-et-Vilaine Morbihan Loire-Atlantique Vendée Manche Mayenne Orne Calvados Maine-et-Loire Sarthe Indre-et-Loire Vienne Deux-Sèvres Indre Loir-et-Cher Eure Eure-et-Loir Seine-Maritime Oise Aisne Somme Pas-de-Calais Nord Ardennes Marne Meuse Meurthe-et-Moselle Haute-Marne Vosges Moselle Haut-Rhin Bas-Rhin Territoire de Belfort Cher Loiret Yonne Aube Côte-d’Or Nièvre Haute-Saône Essonne Yvelines Seine-et-Marne Val-d’Oise Hauts-de-Seine Val-de-Marne Seine-Saint-Denis Paris Doubs Jura Saône-et-Loire Allier Creuse Haute-Vienne Charente Charente-Maritime Corrèze Dordogne Gironde Puy-de-Dôme Loire Rhône Ain Haute-Savoie Cantal Lot Savoie Haute-Loire Isère Ardèche Landes Lot-et-Garonne Hautes-Alpes Drôme Alpes-Maritimes Var Alpes-de-Haute-Provence Vaucluse Bouches-du-Rhône Gard Hérault Lozère Aveyron Tarn Tarn-et-Garonne Gers Pyrènèes-Atlantiques Hautes-Pyrénées Aude Pyrénées-Orientales Haute-Garonne Ariège Haute-Corse Corse-du-Sud Vereinigtes Königreich Andorra Guernsey Jersey Niederlande Belgien Luxemburg Deutschland Liechtenstein Monaco Österreich Schweiz Italien SpanienLocation of the Haute-Loire department in France
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region Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
prefecture Le Puy-en-Velay
Sub-prefecture (s) Brioude
Yssingeaux
Residents 227,283 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density 46 inhabitants per km²
surface 4,977.14 km²
Arrondissements 3
Community associations 11
Cantons 19th
Communities 257
President of the
Department Council
Jean-Pierre Marcon ( UMP )
ISO-3166-2 code FR-43
Location of the Haute-Loire
Location of the Haute-Loire in the
region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes

The Haute-Loire [ otlwaːʀ ] is the French department with the atomic number 43. It is in the center of the country in the region Auvergne Rhône-Alpes and after the upper reaches of the Loire named.

geography

The Haute-Loire is bordered to the north by the departments of Puy-de-Dôme and Loire , to the east and southeast of the Ardèche , in the southwest of the Lozère region Occitania and the west by the Cantal .

The department is located in the eastern part of the Massif Central and is predominantly part of the Velay landscape . In the north, the Livradois-Forez Regional Nature Park extends far into the Puy-de-Dôme department . The Allier river runs through the west of the department in a northerly direction. The eponymous Loire reaches the département from the south in its upper reaches, passes the centrally located capital Le Puy-en-Velay and then flows northeastwards until it merges into the Loire department in Aurec-sur-Loire .

history

The department was formed during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790 from parts of the provinces of Auvergne and Languedoc (the county of Velay, under the Bishop of Le Puy ). It was divided into three districts ( districts ), the forerunners of the arrondissements . The districts were Brioude, Le Puy and Yssingeaux. The department and the districts were divided into 32 cantons and had (1791) around 200,000 (?) Inhabitants. The capital was already Le Puy at that time.

The arrondissements of Brioude , Le Puy and Yssingeaux , which are identical with the districts , were established on February 17, 1800. From September 10, 1926 to June 1, 1942, the Arrondissement Yssingeaux was dissolved and assigned to the Arrondissement Le Puy.

From 1960 to 2015 it was part of the Auvergne region , which in 2016 became part of the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region.

Cities

The most populous communes in the Haute-Loire department are:

city Population
(2017)
Arrondissement
Le Puy-en-Velay 18,995 Le Puy-en-Velay
Monistrol-sur-Loire 8,718 Yssingeaux
Yssingeaux 7.202 Yssingeaux
Brioude 6,721 Brioude
Aurec-sur-Loire 6.111 Yssingeaux
Sainte-Sigolène 5,959 Yssingeaux

Administrative division

Communes and arrondissements in the Haute-Loire department
Saint-Arcons-d'Allier with bridge over the Allier gorge

The Haute-Loire department is divided into 3 arrondissements , 19 cantons and 257 communes :

Arrondissement Cantons Communities Residents
January 1, 2017
Area
km²
Density of
population / km²
Code
INSEE
Brioude 5 111 000000000045606.000000000045.606 1,886.76 000000000000024.000000000024 431
Le Puy-en-Velay 9 102 000000000096525.000000000096,525 1,930.66 000000000000050.000000000050 432
Yssingeaux 8th 44 000000000085152.000000000085.152 1,159.72 000000000000073.000000000073 433
Haute-Loire department 19th 257 000000000227283.0000000000227.283 4,977.14 000000000000046.000000000046 43

See also:

Web links

Commons : Haute-Loire department  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. cg43.fr accessed on September 22, 2014.

Coordinates: 45 ° 2 '  N , 3 ° 53'  E