Hôpital-Camfrout
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region | Brittany | |
Department | Finistère | |
Arrondissement | Brest | |
Canton | Pont-de-Buis-lès-Quimerch | |
Community association | Pays de Landerneau-Daoulas | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 20 ′ N , 4 ° 15 ′ W | |
height | 0-93 m | |
surface | 13.16 km 2 | |
Residents | 2,247 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 171 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 29460 | |
INSEE code | 29080 |
Hôpital-Camfrout ( An Ospital in Breton ) is a French commune in northwest Brittany in the Finistère department with 2247 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017).
location
The municipality is located on the Atlantic coast on one of the foothills of the Bay of Brest. It is located in the Regional Nature Park Armorique ( French Parc naturel régional d'Armorique ).
Brest is 18 kilometers northwest, Quimper 38 kilometers south and Paris about 480 kilometers east (all information as the crow flies ).
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2010 | 2017 |
Residents | 1290 | 1209 | 1063 | 1407 | 1505 | 1641 | 2135 | 2247 |
Sources: Cassini and INSEE |
Attractions
- Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Nouvelle church
- Chapel of Sainte-Anne
- Croix des Douze Apôtres (the cross of the 12 apostles) in Rungléo on the road to Hôpital-Camfrout
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Hôpital-Camfrout
traffic
At Daoulas and le Faou there are exits on the expressway E 60 (Brest- Nantes ) and at Landerneau there is another on the E 50 (Brest- Rennes ).
In Landerneau there is a regional train station on the Brest-Rennes and Brest-Nantes lines. Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris.
The Aéroport de Brest Bretagne regional airport is located near the city of Brest .
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 367-370.