Leucate

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Coordinates: 42°54′38″N 3°01′46″E / 42.9105, 3.0294

Commune of Leucate
Location
Leucate (France)
Leucate
Administration
Country France
Region Languedoc-Roussillon
Department Aude
Arrondissement Narbonne
Canton Sigean
Intercommunality Corbières en Méditerranée
Mayor Michel Py
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation 0 m–70 m
(avg. 25 m)
Land area¹ 23,55 km²
Population²
(1999)		 2732
 - Density 116/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 11202/ 11370
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

Leucate is a commune in the Aude département in southwestern France.

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[edit] Geography

Leucate is on the Mediterranean coast of France. It is part of the eastern Corbières Mountains, which are called the Corbières maritimes. It is around 30 km south of Narbonne, and around 30 km north of Perpignan.

The Phare du Cap Leucate offers a good view (on a clear day) over the whole French Mediterranean Sea from the Spanish border to the Camargue.

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Leucate Village:

Main road

Back road

World War I and II memorial

At the farmers' market

Leucate Plage (beach):

View from the Étang

Some handsome summer residences

The spacious southern beach

The crowded northern beach

Cap Leucate:

The naval radar station

The natural cover

The light house

A TV transmitter and the lighthouse

La Franqui:

View from above the cliffs

A distant view from the seaside

A nice summer residence

Some unpretentious holiday flats

Port Leucate:

View from Étang to harbour

Partial view from southwest

Some boats in the harbour

Aside the promenade

Naturist villages:

The nude beach (southern end) ...

... extends over 1500 metres.

The inner courtyard of Club Oasis ...

... and Les Maisons de la Jete".

[edit] Further reading

  • Nöel Hautemanière and Jacques Hiron: Leucate : plein cadre; livre de photographies. Toreilles, 2004, ISBN 2-9516053-3-1.
  • Christophe Neff: Kulturlandschaftswandel, Fremdenverkehr und Biodiversität auf der Halbinsel Leucate (Dept. Aude / Frankreich). In: Fremdenverkehrsgebiete des Mittelmeerraumes im Umbruch. Beiträge der Tagung des Arbeitskreises "Geographische Mittelmeerländer-Forschung“ vom 11.-13. Oktober 1996 in Regensburg. Regensburger Geographische Schriften, Heft 27, S. 99-135, Regensburg, 1998, ISBN 3-88246-193-4
  • Christophe Neff : Observation géographiques et floristiques sur la presqu'île de Leucate. In: Bul. Soc. Et. Sc. Nat. Nimes et Gard, T. 62, 1999, 23-34.
  • Christophe Neff and Peter Frankenberg : Reflexions géobotaniques sur les plantes échappees de jardins: L´exemple de Euphorbia dendroides et d´autres espèces ornementales dans la région de Leucate et dans les Corbières maritimes (Aude, France). In : Bul. Soc. Et. Sc. Nat. Nîmes et Gard, T. 63, 2001, 7- 10.
  • Christophe Neff : Les Corbières maritimes – forment-elles un étage de végétation méditerranéenne thermophile masqué par la pression humaine ? In: Eric Fouache (Edit.): The Mediterranean World Environment and History. IAG Working Group on Geo-archeology, Symposium Proceedings. Environmental Dynamics and History in Mediterranean Areas, Paris, Université de Paris – Sorbonne 24 – 26 avril 2002. Paris, 2003, 191 – 202, (Elsevier France, ISBN 2-84299-452-3).

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