L'Isle-d'Abeau

L'Isle-d'Abeau
L'Isle-d'Abeau
Location within Rhône-Alpes region  L'Isle-d'Abeau
Coordinates: 45°37′24″N 5°13′50″E / 45.6233°N 5.2305°E / 45.6233; 5.2305Coordinates: 45°37′24″N 5°13′50″E / 45.6233°N 5.2305°E / 45.6233; 5.2305
Country	France
Region	Rhône-Alpes
Department	Isère
Arrondissement	La Tour-du-Pin
Canton	L'Isle-d'Abeau
Intercommunality	Porte de l'Isère
Government
• Mayor	André Colomb-Bouvard
Area
• Land1	9.11 km2 (3.52 sq mi)
Population (2006)
• Urban	40,818
• Population2	15,397
• Population2 Density	1,700/km2 (4,400/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	38193 / 38080
Website	www.mairie-ida.fr
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.

L'Isle-d'Abeau is a French municipality in France, located in the department of Isère, thirty kilometres away from Lyon.

Town

This little city was developed with the creation of the new town. It has 8 primary schools (1 is private), two middle schools, one high school and 2 IUT dedicated to informatic and multimedia jobs.

New Town

The municipality gave its name to a new town, whose creation was decided in 1970 to canalize the demographic growth of the Lyon agglomeration. It is organized in a New Agglomeration Union, together with Four, Saint-Quentin-Fallavier, Vaulx-Milieu and Villefontaine. Since January 1st, 2007, the Union became the Communauté d'agglomération Porte de l'Isère (CAPI), with over 93,000 inhabitants in 21 municipalities.

Population growth

Sister cities

• San Vicente del Raspeig (Alicante, Spain).