Gèdre

Gèdre
local community	Gavarnie-Gèdre
region	Occitania
Department	Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement	Argelès-Gazost
Coordinates	42 ° 47 ' N , 0 ° 1' E Coordinates: 42 ° 47 ' N , 0 ° 1' E
Post Code	65120
Former INSEE code	65192
Incorporation	January 1, 2016
status	Commune déléguée

Gèdre ( Gaskognisch Gèdra ) is a commune déléguée in the French commune Gavarnie-Gèdre with 230 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitania region .

location

Gèdre is located in the south of the Hautes-Pyrénées department, around 50 km (as the crow flies) south of Tarbes . The place is in the Pyrenees National Park . It is part of the Lavedan region and its sub-region Vallée de Barège . The highest point of the Commune déléguée is the peak of the Pic Long (3194 m. Above sea level) on the eastern border of the Commune déléguée. The mountain formations Cirque d'Estaubé and Cirque de Troumouse form the natural border with Spain. The Lac des Gloriettes reservoir also belongs to the Commune déléguée .

The Commune déléguée Gèdre includes the villages and hamlets (hameaux) Ayrues, Gèdre, Gèdre-Dessus, Héas, Pragnères and Saussa, as well as numerous individual farms.

history

The municipality of Gèdre was created on August 5, 1842 from parts of the previous municipality of Luz-Saint-Sauveur . On January 1, 2016, it merged with Gavarnie to form the Commune nouvelle Gavarnie-Gèdre. It belonged to the Argelès-Gazost arrondissement and the canton of La Vallée des Gaves .

Population development

year	1846	1856	1876	1921	1926	1931	1946	1954	1962	1968	1975	1982	1990	1999	2006	2012
Residents	954	1.007	1.012	716	828	590	555	1,077	540	451	393	380	317	291	268	249
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

In the 19th century the place had over 1000 inhabitants at times. The increasing mechanization of agriculture and the remoteness led to a continuous decline in the number of inhabitants to the lows of recent times.