Plounéventer
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region | Brittany | |
Department | Finistère | |
Arrondissement | Morlaix | |
Canton | Landivisiau | |
Community association | Pays de Landivisiau | |
Coordinates | 48 ° 31 ′ N , 4 ° 13 ′ W | |
height | 14-108 m | |
surface | 27.28 km 2 | |
Residents | 2,088 (January 1, 2017) | |
Population density | 77 inhabitants / km 2 | |
Post Code | 29400 | |
INSEE code | 29204 | |
Moulin de Brezal |
Plounéventer ( Breton Gwineventer ) is a French commune with 2088 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Finistère department in the Brittany region . It belongs to the community association Communauté de communes du Pays de Landivisiau .
location
The municipality is located in northwest Brittany 15 kilometers south of the English Channel coast . The city and port of Brest is 24 kilometers southwest, Morlaix 29 kilometers east and Paris around 480 kilometers east (as the crow flies ).
traffic
At Landivisiau and Landerneau there are departures on the expressway E 50 Brest- Rennes and regional train stations on the mostly parallel railway line.
The Brest train station is the terminus of the TGV Atlantique to Paris and the Aéroport de Brest Bretagne airport near Brest is the nearest regional airport .
Population development
year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2007 | 2017 |
Residents | 1466 | 1303 | 1310 | 1416 | 1498 | 1483 | 1684 | 2088 |
Sources: Cassini and INSEE |
Attractions
See: List of the Monuments historiques in Plounéventer
Personalities
- Fañch Favé (1905–1951), cyclist
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Finistère. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-84234-039-6 , pp. 654-659.