Sauzon
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Sauzon Saozon |
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| region | Brittany | |
| Department | Morbihan | |
| Arrondissement | Lorient | |
| Canton | Quiberon | |
| Community association | Belle-Île-en-Mer | |
| Coordinates | 47 ° 22 ′ N , 3 ° 13 ′ W | |
| height | 0-58 m | |
| surface | 22.11 km 2 | |
| Residents | 988 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 45 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 56360 | |
| INSEE code | 56241 | |
| Website | http://www.sauzon.fr/ | |
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Sauzon ( Breton Saozon ) is a French municipality with 988 inhabitants (at January 1, 2017) in the department of Morbihan in the region of Brittany .
geography
Sauzon is located about 15 km south of Quiberon and about 43 kilometers southeast of Lorient in the north-west of the island of Belle-Île south of mainland Brittany. The municipality belongs to the community association Communauté de communes de Belle-Île-en-Mer .
Neighboring communities are Bangor in the southeast and Le Palais in the east. In all other directions the community borders on the sea.
Menhirs Jean and Jeanne
Population development
| 1793 | 1886 | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 | ||
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| 1,133 | 1,704 | 707 | 621 | 566 | 563 | 701 | 835 | 860 | 909 | ||
| Sources: Cassini and INSEE | |||||||||||
Attractions
See: List of Monuments historiques in Sauzon
literature
- Le Patrimoine des Communes du Morbihan. Flohic Editions, Volume 1, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-84234-009-4 , pp. 146-149.
Individual evidence
Web links
Commons : Sauzon - collection of images, videos and audio files
