Maulichères

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Maulichères
Maulishèra
Maulichères (France)
Maulichères
region Occitania
Department Gers
Arrondissement Mirande
Canton Adour-Gersoise
Community association Armagnac Adour
Coordinates 43 ° 41 ′  N , 0 ° 5 ′  E Coordinates: 43 ° 41 ′  N , 0 ° 5 ′  E
height 103-176 m
surface 6.18 km 2
Residents 169 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 27 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 32400
INSEE code

Saint-Michel village church

Maulichères ( Gascon : Maulishèra) is a French municipality with 169 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Gers in the region Okzitanien ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Mirande .

geography

Maulichères is around 14 kilometers east of the small town of Aire-sur-l'Adour in the west of the Gers department. It belongs to the Côtes de Saint-Mont wine region . The main bodies of water are the Le Pesqué and Palue streams , the Canal du Moulin and some small ponds. The most important supra-regional transport connection is the A65 autoroute (part of Europastraße 7 ), a few kilometers west of the municipality . Riscle is the closest bus stop on the 940 Aire-sur-l'Adour-Tarbes bus line.

Maulichères is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Saint-Martin-d'Armagnac in the north, Sarragachies in the east, Riscle in the southeast, Tarsac in the southwest and Caumont in the west.

history

The municipality is historically located within Gascony and belongs to the Bas-Armagnac region . From 1793 to 1801 Maulichères belonged to the district of Nogaro, from 1793 to 1801 and from 1802 to 2015 to the canton Riscle (1801-1802 to the canton of Barcelonne).

Population development

year 1793 1800 1821 1876 1891 1906 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2012
Residents 194 148 249 208 175 210 140 179 171 173 207 185 156 172
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Village church of Saint-Michel from the 10th century
  • Village cemetery

Web links

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