Canton of Champagnac-de-Belair
| Former canton of Champagnac-de-Belair |
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|---|---|
| region | Aquitaine |
| Department | Dordogne |
| Arrondissement | Nontron |
| main place | Champagnac-de-Belair |
| Dissolution date | March 29, 2015 |
| Residents | 3,105 (Jan 1, 2012) |
| Population density | 23 inhabitants / km² |
| surface | 133.13 km² |
| Communities | 9 |
| INSEE code | 2409 |
The canton Champagnac-de-Belair was 2015 a French constituency in Arrondissement Nontron in the Dordogne and in the region of Aquitaine . Its main town was Champagnac-de-Belair , the last representative in the General Council of the Département was Christian Mazière, who was a member of the DVD from 2001 to 2015 .
The canton was 133.13 km² and had (2008) 3,108 inhabitants, which corresponded to a population density of 23 inhabitants per km². It was on average 166 meters above sea level , between 100 m in La Gonterie-Boulouneix and 240 m in Villars .
geography
The canton bordered the cantons of Nontron and Saint-Pardoux-la-Rivière to the north, the canton Thiviers to the east, the canton Brantôme in the Périgueux arrondissement to the south and the canton Mareuil to the west .
A special feature is the exclave-like protuberance of the municipality of La Gonterie-Boulouneix , which is separated from the core area of the former canton.
The main flood in the former canton is the Dronne , which flows south . It takes the Côle as a left tributary at the southwest corner of the canton . Just before this confluence, the Trincou, coming from the northeast, flows into the west-facing Côle as a right branch .
The Mareuil canton was the border canton of the Périgord-Limousin Regional Nature Park .
Communities
The following municipalities were located in the canton of Champagnac-de-Belair (as of 2008):
| local community | Residents | Area (km²) | Population density inhabitants / km² |
Code Insee | Post Code |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cantillac | 184 | 8.12 | 22.7 | 24079 | 24530 |
| Champagnac-de-Belair | 712 | 18.46 | 38.6 | 24096 | 24530 |
| La Chapelle-Faucher | 381 | 18.40 | 20.7 | 24107 | 24530 |
| La Chapelle-Montmoreau | 75 | 8.09 | 9.3 | 24111 | 24300 |
| Condat-sur-Trincou | 500 | 16.54 | 30.2 | 24129 | 24530 |
| La Gonterie-Boulouneix | 236 | 11.79 | 20.0 | 24198 | 24310 |
| Quinsac | 383 | 17.37 | 22.0 | 24346 | 24530 |
| Saint-Pancrace | 158 | 6.69 | 23.6 | 24474 | 24530 |
| Villars | 479 | 27.67 | 17.3 | 24582 | 24530 |
The canton of Champagnac-de-Belair was relatively sparsely populated (23.3 inhabitants / km²). Most of the inhabitants were concentrated in the capital of the canton, in the commune of Champagnac-de-Belair. However, the largest municipality in terms of area was Villars. The smallest municipality was Saint-Pancrace, the municipality with the fewest inhabitants and the lowest population density was La Chapelle-Montmoreau. Champagnac-de-Belair, Condat-sur-Trincou and Saint-Pancrace had above-average population densities.
Population development
| 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2008 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3299 | 3200 | 3095 | 3044 | 2983 | 3050 | 3115 | 3108 |