Sacoué
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Sacoué Sàcoe |
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| region | Occitania | |
| Department | Hautes-Pyrénées | |
| Arrondissement | Bagneres-de-Bigorre | |
| Canton | La Vallée de la Barousse | |
| Community association | Neste Barousse | |
| Coordinates | 42 ° 59 ′ N , 0 ° 34 ′ E | |
| height | 535-1,635 m | |
| surface | 13.14 km 2 | |
| Residents | 62 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 5 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 65370 | |
| INSEE code | 65382 | |
Sacoué ( Gaskognisch Sàcoe ) is a French commune with 62 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region ; it belongs to the Arrondissement of Bagnères-de-Bigorre and the municipality of Neste Barousse .
geography
Sacoué is located around 48 kilometers southeast of the city of Tarbes in the east of the Hautes-Pyrénées department on the border with the Haute-Garonne department. The community consists of the village of Sacoué and a few individual farms. Large parts of the mountain slopes are forested. The highest point of the municipality is the Pic de Douly on the western municipality boundary . In terms of traffic, the community is located on the D125 a few kilometers west of the N125 .
history
The place is first mentioned as De Saquo in the year 1387 in the church register of Comminges. In the Middle Ages, the place was within the county of Barousse in the Armagnac region , which in turn was part of the Gascogne province. The parish belonged to the district La Barthe from 1793 to 1801. In addition, Sacoué was within the canton of Mauléon-Barousse from 1793 to 2015 . The municipality has been part of the Bagnères-de-Bigorre arrondissement since 1801. On July 14, 1944, an Allied plane crashed on the eastern flank of the Pic de Douly. All seven crew members died. Resistance fighters buried the remains of the aircraft crew on July 18, 1944 at the scene of the accident.
Population development
| year | 1793 | 1821 | 1846 | 1866 | 1926 | 1931 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2014 |
| Residents | 293 | 187 | 505 | 478 | 180 | 197 | 102 | 65 | 51 | 46 | 46 | 54 | 62 | 75 |
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Attractions
- Saint-Jean-l'Évangéliste village church ; the stoup in the church has been a monument historique since 1905
- Commemorative plaque for the fallen
- small military cemetery for the Canadian and the six British at their crash site in the mountains
- Crossroads at the Col de Mortis pass
- Lavoir (wash house)
