Duras, Lot-et-Garonne
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Commune of Duras | |
Location | |
Longitude | 00° 11' 01" East |
Latitude | 44° 40' 37" North |
Administration | |
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Country | France |
Région | Aquitaine |
Département | Lot-et-Garonne |
Arrondissement | Marmande |
Canton | Canton of Duras (chef-lieu de canton) |
Statistics | |
Altitude | 28 m–128 m (avg. 100 m) |
Land area¹ | 20.17 km² |
Population² (1999) |
1214 |
- Density (1999) | 60/km² |
Miscellaneous | |
INSEE/Postal code | 47086/ 47120 |
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq. mi. or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
Duras is a commune of the Lot-et-Garonne département, in France. The town is traversed by the Dropt river.
The writer Marguerite Donnadieu (1914-1996) took the pseudonym "Marguerite Duras" in 1943, after this village, where her father's house was located.