Arrondissement of Prades
The arrondissement of Prades is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Pyrénées-Orientales département. Its capital is the city of Prades. It is the only arrondissement of the department without access to the Mediterranean Sea.
 Location within the region Occitanie | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Occitanie |
| Department | Pyrénées-Orientales |
| No. of communes | 123 |
| Subprefecture | Prades |
| Area | 2,181.4 km2 (842.2 sq mi) |
| INSEE code | 663 |
History
When the Pyrénées-Orientales department was created on 17 February 1800, the arrondissement of Prades was part of that original department.[1]
Geography
The arrondissement of Prades is in the southwest of the department and is the largest of the arrondissements of the department, with an area of 1,845.1 square kilometres (712 square miles),[2] but it is the third in population, with 43,176 inhabitants and a density of 23.4 inhabitants/km².[3]
The arrondissement is bordered to the north by the Aude department, to the east by the arrondissements of Perpignan and Céret, to the south by Spain, to the southwest by Andorra and to the northwest by the Ariège department.
Composition
Cantons
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[4] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
In the arrondissement of Prades, only the Les Pyrénées catalanes canton has its 62 communes in the arrondissement. The following table shows the distribution of the "communes" in the cantons and arrondissements:
| INSEE Code |
Canton | Céret | Perpignan | Prades | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6602 | Le Canigou | 16 | 25 | 41 | |
| 6613 | Les Pyrénées catalanes | 62 | 62 | ||
| 6615 | La Vallée de l'Agly | 27 | 11 | 38 | |
| 6616 | La Vallée de la Têt | 8 | 2 | 10 |
Communes
The arrondissement of Prades has 100 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):[5]
- Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes (66005)
- Arboussols (66007)
- Ayguatébia-Talau (66010)
- Baillestavy (66013)
- Bolquère (66020)
- Boule-d'Amont (66022)
- Bouleternère (66023)
- Bourg-Madame (66025)
- Campoussy (66035)
- Campôme (66034)
- Canaveilles (66036)
- Casefabre (66040)
- Casteil (66043)
- Catllar (66045)
- Caudiès-de-Conflent (66047)
- Clara (66051)
- Codalet (66052)
- Conat (66054)
- Corneilla-de-Conflent (66057)
- Dorres (66062)
- Enveitg (66066)
- Err (66067)
- Escaro (66068)
- Espira-de-Conflent (66070)
- Estavar (66072)
- Estoher (66073)
- Eus (66074)
- Eyne (66075)
- Felluns (66076)
- Fillols (66078)
- Finestret (66079)
- Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via (66124)
- Fontpédrouse (66080)
- Fontrabiouse (66081)
- Formiguères (66082)
- Fuilla (66085)
- Glorianes (66086)
- Ille-sur-Têt (66088)
- Joch (66089)
- Jujols (66090)
- La Cabanasse (66027)
- La Llagonne (66098)
- Latour-de-Carol (66095)
- Le Vivier (66234)
- Les Angles (66004)
- Llo (66100)
- Los Masos (66104)
- Mantet (66102)
- Marquixanes (66103)
- Matemale (66105)
- Molitg-les-Bains (66109)
- Mont-Louis (66117)
- Montalba-le-Château (66111)
- Mosset (66119)
- Nahuja (66120)
- Nohèdes (66122)
- Nyer (66123)
- Olette (66125)
- Oreilla (66128)
- Osséja (66130)
- Palau-de-Cerdagne (66132)
- Planès (66142)
- Porta (66146)
- Porté-Puymorens (66147)
- Prades (66149)
- Prats-de-Sournia (66151)
- Prunet-et-Belpuig (66153)
- Puyvalador (66154)
- Py (66155)
- Pézilla-de-Conflent (66139)
- Rabouillet (66156)
- Railleu (66157)
- Ria-Sirach (66161)
- Rigarda (66162)
- Rodès (66165)
- Réal (66159)
- Sahorre (66166)
- Saillagouse (66167)
- Saint-Michel-de-Llotes (66185)
- Saint-Pierre-dels-Forcats (66188)
- Sainte-Léocadie (66181)
- Sansa (66191)
- Sauto (66192)
- Serdinya (66193)
- Souanyas (66197)
- Sournia (66198)
- Tarerach (66201)
- Targassonne (66202)
- Taurinya (66204)
- Thuès-Entre-Valls (66209)
- Trilla (66216)
- Trévillach (66215)
- Ur (66218)
- Urbanya (66219)
- Valcebollère (66220)
- Valmanya (66221)
- Vernet-les-Bains (66222)
- Villefranche-de-Conflent (66223)
- Vinça (66230)
- Égat (66064)
The communes with more inhabitants in the arrondissement are:
| INSEE code |
Commune | Population[3] (2014) |
Canton | Intercommunality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 66149 | Prades | 5,927 | Les Pyrénées catalanes | Conflent-Canigó |
| 66088 | Ille-sur-Têt | 5,375 | La Vallée de la Têt | Roussillon-Conflent |
| 66230 | Vinça | 1,994 | Le Canigou | Conflent-Canigó |
| 66124 | Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via | 1,916 | Les Pyrénées catalanes | Capcir Haut-Conflent |
| 66222 | Vernet-les-Bains | 1,344 | Le Canigou | Conflent-Canigó |
| 66130 | Osséja | 1,330 | Les Pyrénées catalanes | Pyrénées Cerdagne |
| 66161 | Ria-Sirach | 1,309 | Les Pyrénées catalanes | Conflent-Canigó |
| 66025 | Bourg-Madame | 1,201 | Les Pyrénées catalanes | Pyrénées Cerdagne |
| 66167 | Saillagouse | 1,085 | Les Pyrénées catalanes | Pyrénées Cerdagne |
Related pages
References
- ↑ "Historique des Pyrénées-Orientales". Le SPLAF (in French). Retrieved 4 August 2013.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Département des Pyrénées-Orientales (66)". Comparateur de territoire (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Régions, départements, arrondissements, cantons et communes" (PDF). Populations légales 2014 (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Décret n° 2014-262 du 26 février 2014 portant délimitation des cantons dans le département des Pyrénées-Orientales" (in French). Légifrance.gouv.fr. 2 March 2014. Retrieved 17 June 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unrecognized language (link) - ↑ "Arrondissement de Prades (663)" (in French). Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques - INSEE. Retrieved 7 February 2017.
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