Champs-sur-Yonne

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Coordinates: 47°44′17″N 3°36′06″E / 47.73806, 3.60167

Administration
Commune of Champs-sur-Yonne

La Marine
Location

Country	France
Region	Bourgogne
Department	Yonne
Arrondissement	Auxerre
Canton	Auxerre-Est
Intercommunality	Communauté de Communes de l'Auxerrois
Statistics
Elevation	97 m–133 m (avg. 109 m)
Land area^¹	4.39 km²
Population^² (1999)	1,382
- Density	314/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code	89077/ 89290
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: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.

Champ-sur-Yonne is a French commune situated in the departement of Yonne and the region of Burgundy. Its inhabitants are called "Champicaunais". Champs-sur-Yonne is part of the metropolitan area of Auxerre

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

[edit] Geography

Champs is in the Valley of the Yonne River, on the east bank of the river. The soil is alluvial, made both from local limestones and erosion products from the source of the Yonne in the Morvan. There is little agriculture in the mostly built up village, but yypical crops include wheat, hemp, and sunflowers.

[edit] History

There have been local settlements in the area since at least Roman times, but the growth of Champs as a distinct commune dates from the building of the three water mills on the Yonne in the eighteenth century.