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Commune of Rochechouart |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Limousin |
| Department | Haute-Vienne (sous-préfecture) |
| Arrondissement | Rochechouart |
| Canton | Rochechouart (chief town) |
| Intercommunality | CC du Pays de la Météorite |
| Mayor | Jean-Marie Rougier (2008-2014) |
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| Elevation | 159 m–313 m (avg. 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, Limousin ( Occitan: Lemosin) is one of the 26 regions of 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 Haute-Vienne is a French department named after the Vienne River. Subprefectures (sous-préfectures are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department. The 100 French departments are divided into 342 arrondissements, which may be translated into English as districts. The arrondissement of Rochechouart is an arrondissement of France located in the Haute-Vienne département, in the Limousin 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. 265 m) |
| Land area¹ | 53. 88
sans=3,808 km² |
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| INSEE/Postal code | 87126/ 87600 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0. 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 | |
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Rochechouart (Rechoard in Occitan, earlier La Ròcha Choard) is a commune of France. Occitan ( IPA BrE: /ˈɒksɪtn/ AmE: /ˈɑksəˌtɑn/ known also as Lenga d'òc or Langue d'oc (native name occitan The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. It is located in the Haute-Vienne département, of which it is a sous-préfecture. Haute-Vienne is a French department named after the Vienne 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 Subprefectures (sous-préfectures are the administrative towns of arrondissements in France that do not contain the prefecture for its department. The name of the town comes from Latin roca cavardi, which roughly translates as the rock of Cavardus, the lord who had the fortified place built at the beginning of the 11th century. Latin ( lingua Latīna, laˈtiːna is an Italic language, historically spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. More often than not, natives pronounce it IPA: [ʀoˈʃwaʀ], not ʀɔʃəˈʃwaʀ].
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Demographic evolution
- 1962: 4. 093
- 1968: 4. 059
- 1975: 4. 196
- 1982: 4. 053
- 1990: 3. 985
- 1999: 3. 667
- 2006: 3. 808
Inhabitants are known as Rochechouartais.
Places of interest
The Rochechouart crater is named after the city, and covers part of it. Rochechouart is an impact crater in France. The crater Diameter is still under debate but expected to be about and its current age estimate
The Château de Rochechouart was build in the 13th century. Château de Rochechouart is a thirteenth century French Castle, located at the top of the confluence of the Grêne and Vayres rivers in the commune
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References
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