Mauléon-Licharre

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Coordinates: 43°13′31″N 0°53′09″W / 43.2252777778, -0.885833333333

Commune of Mauléon-Licharre

Location
Mauléon-Licharre (France)
Mauléon-Licharre
Administration
Country France
Region Aquitaine
Department Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Canton Mauléon-Licharre
(chief town)
Intercommunality Communauté de communes de Soule-Xiberoa
Mayor Denis Barbé-Labarthe
(2001-2008)
Statistics
Elevation 133 m–521 m
(avg. 214 m)
Land area¹ 13 km²
Population²
(1999)
3,347
 - Density 261/km² (1999)
Miscellaneous
INSEE/Postal code 64371/ 64130
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

Mauléon-Licharre or simply Mauléon (Basque: Maule-Lextarre) is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département, in France.

It is the capital of the Soule (Zuberoa) historical French and Basque province.

It is also home to the canvas shoe, the "Espadrilles".

[edit] Demographics

Date of Population
1793 1800 1806 1820 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851
862 985 1 007 - - 1 145 1 259 1 577 1 654 1 600
1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896
1 475 1 708 1 876 1 743 2 108 2 409 2 251 2 575 2 651
1901 1906 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954
3 368 4 045 4 827 4 220 4 316 4 069 4 193 4 567 4 619
1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2004 - -
4 679 4 500 4 239 4 099 3 533 3 347 - - -
For the census of 1962 to 1999 the official population corresponds with the population without duplicates according to the INSEE.

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