Latour-de-Carol
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Commune of Latour-de-Carol Latour-de-Carol station, 2 February 2004 |
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| Location | |
| Longitude | 01°53'23" E |
| Latitude | 42°27'57" N |
| Administration | |
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| Country | France |
| Region | Languedoc-Roussillon |
| Department | Pyrénées-Orientales |
| Arrondissement | Prades |
| Canton | Saillagouse |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes de Pyrénées Cerdagne |
| Mayor | Albert Truno (2001-2008) |
| Statistics | |
| Altitude | 1,209 m–2,080 m (avg. 1,248 m) |
| Land area¹ | 12.63 km² |
| Population² (1999) |
367 |
| - Density (1999) | 29/km² |
| Miscellaneous | |
| INSEE/Postal code | 66095/ 66760 |
| ¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 mi² or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| ² Population sans doubles comptes: single count of residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel). | |
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Latour de Carol (Catalan: La Tor de Querol) is a village and commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales département in France, near the border with Spain and Andorra. The population in 1999 was 367.
[edit] Transportation
The village's train station is served by both RENFE (the Spanish state operator) and SNCF (the French state operator), as well as the local metre-gauge Yellow Train (Train Jaune/Tren Groc), and trains on the various lines run to Barcelona, Foix, Toulouse, and Villefranche-de-Conflent (Catalan: Vilafranca de Conflent). It is therefore unusual in being a "junction" for lines of three different gauges: metre gauge, the standard gauge of SNCF and the broad gauge (1668mm or 5 ft, 5½ in) of RENFE. The station is the closest railway station to Andorra.
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