Puilacher is a village and commune in the Hérault département of southern France. A village is a clustered human settlement or community, larger than a hamlet, but smaller than a Town or City. The following is a list of the 343 communes of the Hérault département, in France. Hérault ( Occitan: Erau) is a department in the southwest of France named after the Hérault river. 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.