Lacq
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Commune of Lacq |
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Location | |
Administration | |
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Country | France |
Region | Aquitaine |
Department | Pyrénées-Atlantiques |
Arrondissement | Pau |
Canton | Arthez-de-Béarn and Lagor |
Intercommunality | Communauté de communes de Lacq |
Mayor | Guy Cassou (2001-2008) |
Statistics | |
Elevation | 88 m–190 m (avg. 95 m) |
Land area¹ | 17.05 km² |
Population² (1999) |
658 |
- Density | 38.59/km² (1999) |
Miscellaneous | |
INSEE/Postal code | 64300/ 64170 |
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. | |
Lacq is a town and commune of southwestern France, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, just northwest of the local capital of Pau. Population (1999): 658.
[edit] Economy
In modern times it has been based around the industrial uses of subsurface petroleum reserves, and since 1951 on the extraction and development of a very large natural gas reservoir underneath the city. Processing of the large quantities of hydrogen sulfide in the gas have made Lacq a center of sulfur production.