Commune of Île-de-Bréhat | ||
| Enez-Vriad | ||
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| Port-Clos landing stage at low tide | ||
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| Country | France | |
| Region | Bretagne | |
| Department | Côtes-d'Armor | |
| Arrondissement | Saint-Brieuc | |
| Canton | Paimpol | |
| Intercommunality | none as of 2008 | |
| Mayor | Yvon Colin (2001-2008) | |
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| Elevation | 0 m–34 m | |
| Land area¹ | 3. A geographic coordinate system enables every location on the Earth to be specified in three coordinates using mainly a spherical coordinate system. Wikipedia talkFeatured lists for an explanation of this and other inclusion tags below -->This list of countries, arranged alphabetically This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. France is divided into 26 regions or régions (in French of which 21 are in continental Metropolitan France, one is the island of Corsica, In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division Côtes-d'Armor ( Breton: Aodoù-an-Arvor) is a department in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Saint-Brieuc is an arrondissement of France located in the Côtes-d'Armor département, in the Bretagne The cantons of France are territorial subdivisions of the French Republic's 341 arrondissements and 100 departments. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. A mayor (from the Latin māior, meaning "greater" is a modern title used in many countries for the highest ranking officer in a municipal government The elevation of a Geographic location is its height above a fixed reference point often the mean sea level. 09 km² | |
| Population² (1999) | 421 | |
| - Density | 136/km² (1999) | |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 22016/ 22870 | |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. As of January 1, 2008, 64473140 people live in the French Republic. Population density (in agriculture standing stock and Standing crop) is a measurement of Population per unit area or unit volume The INSEE code is a numerical indexing code used by the French National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE to identify various entities including communes Postal codes were introduced in France in 1972, when La Poste introduced automated sorting. Square Kilometre ( US spelling square kilometer) symbol km2, is a decimal multiple of the SI unit of 386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. The square mile is an imperial and US unit of Area equal the area of a square of one statute mile. An estuary is a semi-enclosed Coastal body of Water with one or more Rivers or Streams flowing into it and with a free connection to the open | ||
| 2 Population sans doubles comptes: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once. C D E | ||
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Île-de-Bréhat (Breton: Enez Vriad) is an island located near Paimpol, a mile off the northern coast of Bretagne. The Breton language ( Brezhoneg) formerly often called Armoric or Armorican, is a Celtic language spoken by some of the inhabitants of Brittany An island (ˈaɪlənd or isle (/ˈaɪl/ is any piece of land that is completely surrounded by water in two dimensions above high tide and isolated from other significant Paimpol (Pempoull is a commune in the Côtes-d'Armor department in Bretagne in northwestern France. Administratively, it forms a commune of the Côtes-d'Armor département in France. The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. Côtes-d'Armor ( Breton: Aodoù-an-Arvor) is a department in the north of Brittany, in northwestern France. In the context of the political and geographic organization of France and many of its former colonies a department (département depaʁtǝmɑ̃ is an Administrative division This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics.
Bréhat is actually an archipelago composed of two main islands, separated only at high tide, and many smaller ones. An archipelago (ɑrkəˈpɛləgoʊ is a chain or cluster of Islands The word archipelago literally means "chief Sea " from Italian An island (ˈaɪlənd or isle (/ˈaɪl/ is any piece of land that is completely surrounded by water in two dimensions above high tide and isolated from other significant It is famous for its pink granite rocks, very mild micro-climate and Mediterranean vegetation, due to the warm Gulf Stream coming from across the Atlantic. Granite (ˈɡrænɪt is a common and widely occurring type of intrusive, Felsic, igneous rock. A microclimate is a local atmospheric zone where the Climate differs from the surrounding area The Gulf Stream, together with its northern extension towards Europe the North Atlantic Drift, is a powerful warm and swift Atlantic Ocean current that
Many day-trippers come to Brehat every day by the ferry service (les Vedettes de Bréhat) and visit the main tourist attractions, the Paon & Rosedo lighthouses, the St-Michel chapel, the Guerzido beach, the Birlot water-mill and the Verrerie of Bréhat.
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Demographics
Inhabitants of Île-de-Bréhat are called Bréhatins.
As of the census of 1999, the village has a population of 421. A census is the procedure of acquiring information about every member of a given population
Attractions
- Rosedo Lighthouse
- Chapelle Saint Michel
- Paon Lighthouse
- Chapelle Keranroux
- Verrerie of Brehat
See also
External links
- Vedettes de Bréhat (ferry boat company)
- all what you want to know about Brehat
- Tourism in Brehat
- French Ministry of Culture list for Île-de-Bréhat (French)
 Paon Lighthouse |  Chapelle St Michel |  Chapelle Keranoux |
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