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Bourréac |
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| Bourréac village with outlook on Lourdes | |
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Bourréac
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| Country | France |
| Region | Midi-Pyrénées |
| Department | Hautes-Pyrénées |
| Arrondissement | Argelès-Gazost |
| Canton | Lourdes-Est |
| Intercommunality | Communauté de communes de la Baronnie des Angles |
| Mayor | Roland Darré (2008–2014) |
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| Elevation | 429–582 m (1,407–1,909 ft) (avg. 520 m/1,710 ft) |
| Land area1 | 1.26 km2 (0.49 sq mi) |
| Population2 | 92 (2008) |
| - Density | 73 /km2 (190 /sq mi) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 65107/ 65100 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
| 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once. | |
Bourréac is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in south-western France near the city of Lourdes (4,5 km).
The commune counts 92 inhabitants in 2009. Its economy is based on residences (the village is included in the urban area of Lourdes), agriculture (animal husbandry mainly) and tourism (gîtes ruraux).
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The village overlooks Lezignan and Lourdes valley as from a balcony and stays in the center of a line of low hills, 500 to 600 m high, in front of the chain of Pyrenees Mountains, with notably the foreground Pic du Jer (950m), and, in the middle distance, the summits of Cabaliros (2334 m), Hautacam (1500 to 1800 m), Montaigu (2339 m) and Pic du Midi de Bigorre (2877 m).
Crest paths starts from the village, mainly the D807 in the direction of Recahorts (hamlet of Bourréac) and, then, Pouts (hamlet of a neighbour village, Escoubes-Pouts).
The climate of Bourréac is that one mentioned by the meteo station of Ossun-Tarbes with a microclimate for special places resulting from their exposition to south and a protection from west wind. So in winter, local temperature is often 2 or 3 degrees higher than that noted in the valley of Lezignan and Lourdes.
As many French words whose suffix is ac (from Latin acum ), Bourréac name comes from the name of an antique gallo-roman property, with the patronymic Burrius or Burrinus : the property of Burrius. On the neighbour place of Sendac, a marble gallo-roman statue has been discovered in 1846. It can be seen in the Jardin Massey Museum, in Tarbes.
Before 1789, during the old or Ancien Regime, Bourréac was included in the Barony of The Angles (name of a neighbour village with an Middle age castle.