Fontpédrouse

Fontpédrouse
Fontpédrouse; Fontpedrosa
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Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Prades
Canton	Mont-Louis
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Arlette Bigorre
Area1	64.35 km2 (24.85 sq mi)
Population (1999)2	123
• Density	1.9/km2 (5.0/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	66080 / 66360
Elevation	880–2,865 m (2,887–9,400 ft); (avg. 1,062 m or 3,484 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Fontpédrouse (Catalan: Fontpedrosa) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Fontpédrouse is located in the canton of Mont-Louis and in the arrondissement of Prades.

Map of Fontpédrouse and its surrounding communes

The commune of Prats-Saint-Thomas is merged into Fontpédrouse on 26 June 1822.^[1]

Part of the hamlets of Prats-Saint-Thomas are destroyed in december 1932 because of heavy rains which caused several landslides.^[2]

Population 1962-2008

↑ (French) Jean-Pierre Pélissier, Paroisses et communes de France : dictionnaire d'histoire administrative et démographique, vol. 66 : Pyrénées-Orientales, Paris, CNRS, 1986
↑ (French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Pluies diluviennes en décembre 1932, 3 february 2014

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