Haute-Vienne department

Haute-Vienne
region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
prefecture	Limoges
Sub-prefecture (s)	Bellac Rochechouart
Residents	374,426 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	68 inhabitants per km²
surface	5,519 km²
Arrondissements	3
Community associations	13
Cantons	21st
Communities	195
President of the Department Council	Jean-Claude Leblois
ISO-3166-2 code	FR-87
Location of the Haute-Vienne in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine

The Haute-Vienne department [ otvjɛn ] is the French department with the atomic number 87. It is in the center of the country in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine and is named after the river Vienne named.

geography

Menhir du Pic at Javerdat

The Haute-Vienne department is bordered to the north by the departments of Vienne and Indre , on the east by the Creuse , in the southeast on the Correze , in the southwest on the Dordogne and in the west to the Charente .

The department is located in the northwestern foothills of the Massif Central , the southeast protrudes into the Plateau de Millevaches . The most important river is the eponymous Vienne , which rises in the Plateau de Millevaches, reaches the department from the southeast, then turns west, flows through the centrally located capital Limoges and leaves the department in the second largest city of Saint-Junien . The Gartempe runs through the north of the department . The southwest is part of the Périgord-Limousin Regional Natural Park .

The Dolmen du Bois de la Lieue is located in a forest west of Ambazac near Limoges .

history

It was formed on March 4, 1790 from part of the Limousin Province and part of the Marche Province . It also belonged to the Limousin region from 1960 to 2015 , which became part of the Nouvelle Aquitaine region in 2016 .

Cities

The most populous municipalities in the Haute-Vienne department are:

city	Population (2017)	Arrondissement
Limoges	132.175	Limoges
Saint-Junien	11.202	Rochechouart
Panazol	10,972	Limoges
Couzeix	9,268	Limoges
Isle	7,696	Limoges
Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche	6,766	Limoges
Feytiat	6.123	Limoges
Le Palais-sur-Vienne	6,042	Limoges
Aixe-sur-Vienne	5,836	Limoges
Ambazac	5,667	Limoges

Administrative division

The Haute-Vienne department is divided into 3 arrondissements , 21 cantons and 195 communes :

Communes and arrondissements in the Haute-Vienne department

Arrondissement	Cantons	Communities	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE
Bellac	3	57	38,870	1,778.91	22nd	871
Limoges	17th	108	297,741	2,944.66	101	872
Rochechouart	2	30th	37,815	795.43	48	873
Haute-Vienne department	21st	195	374.426	5,519.00	68	87

See also:

• List of communes in the Haute-Vienne department
• List of cantons in the Haute-Vienne department
• List of associations of municipalities in the Haute-Vienne department

partnership

As early as 1981, the département concluded a regional partnership with the district of Middle Franconia in Germany .

Web links

Commons : Département Haute-Vienne  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Haute-Vienne (French)
• Prefecture of the Haute-Vienne (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ haute-vienne.fr ( Memento of the original from May 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. accessed on May 6, 2015.  

Coordinates: 45 ° 52 ′  N , 1 ° 16 ′  E