Hautes-Pyrénées department

Hautes-Pyrénées
region	Occitania
prefecture	Tarbes
Sub-prefecture (s)	Argelès-Gazost Bagneres-de-Bigorre
Residents	228,530 (Jan. 1, 2017)
Population density	51 inhabitants per km²
surface	4,463.74 km²
Arrondissements	3
Community associations	10
Cantons	17th
Communities	469
President of the Department Council	Michel Pélieu
ISO-3166-2 code	FR-65
Location of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region

The Hautes-Pyrénées department is the French department with ordinal number 65. It is located in the south of the country on the Spanish border in the Occitania region north of the main Pyrenees ridge .

geography

The Hautes-Pyrénées department is surrounded clockwise by the Pyrénées-Atlantiques , Gers and Haute-Garonne departments . In the south, the main ridge of the Pyrenees forms the state border with the autonomous region of Aragon in Spain . The most important river is the Adour .

history

The department was formed on March 4, 1790 mainly from the Gascognischen county Bigorre , which was expanded to the north and east, mainly by parts of the county Armagnac , the county Comminges and the vice-county Nébouzan .

From 1960 to 2015 it belonged to the Midi-Pyrénées region , which in 2016 became part of the newly created region of Occitania.

coat of arms

Description : In gold, two blue-armed and blue -tongued running red lions .

Biggest cities

• Tarbes (approx. 40,000)
• Lourdes (approx. 14,000)

Administrative division

Communes and arrondissements in the Hautes-Pyrénées department

Arrondissement	Cantons	Communities	Residents January 1, 2017	Area km²	Density of population / km²	Code INSEE
Argelès-Gazost	3	87	37,695	1,300.15	29	651
Bagneres-de-Bigorre	4th	170	48,615	1,783.40	27	652
Tarbes	11	212	142.220	1,380.19	103	653
Hautes-Pyrénées department	17th	469	228,530	4,463.74	51	65

See also:

• List of communes in the Hautes-Pyrénées department
• List of cantons in the Hautes-Pyrénées department
• List of associations of municipalities in the Hautes-Pyrénées department

Web links

Commons : Hautes-Pyrénées department  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• General Council of the Hautes-Pyrénées (French)
• Prefecture of the Hautes-Pyrénées (French)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cg65.fr accessed on August 21, 2012.

Coordinates: 43 ° 12 '  N , 0 ° 6'  E