Loqueffret
Loqueffret Lokeored |
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region | Brittany | |
Department | Finistère | |
Arrondissement | Chateaulin | |
Canton | Carhaix-Plouguer | |
Community association | Monts d'Arrée Communauté | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 19 ′ N , 3 ° 51 ′ W | |
height | 87-297 m | |
surface | 27.40 km 2 | |
Residents | 359 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 13 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 29530 | |
INSEE code | 29141 | |
Mairie Loqueffret |
Loqueffret ( Breton Lokeored ) is a French commune with 359 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Finistère department .
location
The place is located in the west of Brittany in the Regional Nature Park Armorique ( French Parc naturel régional d'Armorique ), in a hilly and wooded area.
Quimper is 40 kilometers southwest, Brest 46 kilometers northwest and Paris around 450 kilometers east (as the crow flies ).
traffic
At Le Faou and Châteaulin , the next exits are on the expressway E 60 (Brest – Nantes ) and at Landivisiau and Morlaix on the E 50 (Brest – Rennes ). There are also the next regional train stations on the mostly parallel railway lines.
Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris.
The nearest regional airports are the Aéroport de Brest Bretagne near Brest and the Aéroport de Lorient Bretagne Sud near Lorient .
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2010 | 2017 |
Residents | 725 | 692 | 511 | 482 | 428 | 435 | 402 | 359 |
Sources: Cassini and INSEE |
Attractions
- Sainte-Geneviève church
See also: List of Monuments historiques in Loqueffret
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 2, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 914-916.