Haute-Garonne

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Haute-Garonne

The Haute-Garonne coat of arms
Location

Administration
Département number:	31
Région:	Midi-Pyrénées
Préfecture:	Toulouse
Sub-Préfectures:	Saint-Gaudens Muret
Arrondissements:	3
Cantons:	53
Communes:	588
Conseiller Général:	Pierre Izard
Statistics
Population	Ranked 17th
-Jan.1, 2004 estimate -March 8, 1999 census	1,134,980 1,046,338
Population density:	180/km²
Land area¹:	6,309 km²

¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km².

Haute-Garonne is a département in the southwest of France named after the Garonne river.

1 History
2 Geography
3 Demographics
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] History

Haute-Garonne was one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790. It was created from part of the former province of Languedoc.

[edit] Geography

Haute-Garonne is part of the current région of Midi-Pyrénées and is surrounded by the départements of Hautes-Pyrénées, Gers, Tarn-et-Garonne, Tarn, Aude, and Ariège. It also borders Spain in the south (province of Lleida and province of Huesca).

The department is crossed by the Garonne River for nearly 200 kilometers (125 miles). The extreme south of the département lies in the Pyrenees mountain range and is very mountainous. The highest elevation is the Peak of Perdiguère, at 3,222 meters (10,571 ft) above sea level. and that is wrong.

[edit] Demographics

The inhabitants of the department are called Haut-Garonnais. The greatest population concentration is around Toulouse. The south of the department is quite sparsely populated.