Duras, Lot-et-Garonne

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Commune of Duras
Location
Longitude 00° 11' 01" East
Latitude 44° 40' 37" North
Administration
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).
France

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.