Duras, Lot-et-Garonne

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Coordinates: 44°40′37″N 0°11′01″E / 44.6769444444, 0.183611111111

Commune of Duras

Location
Duras, Lot-et-Garonne (France)
Duras, Lot-et-Garonne
Administration
Country France
Region Aquitaine
Department Lot-et-Garonne
Arrondissement Marmande
Canton Canton of Duras
(chef-lieu de canton)
Statistics
Elevation 28 m–128 m
(avg. 100 m)
Land area¹ 20.17 km²
Population²
(1999)
1214
 - Density 60/km² (1999)
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: residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) only counted once.
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.