Sous-Parsat

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Sous-Parsat
Sous-Parsat
Coordinates: 46°03′23″N 1°58′51″E / 46.0564°N 1.9808°E / 46.0564; 1.9808Coordinates: 46°03′23″N 1°58′51″E / 46.0564°N 1.9808°E / 46.0564; 1.9808
Country France
Region Limousin
Department Creuse
Arrondissement Aubusson
Canton Saint-Sulpice-les-Champs
Intercommunality Pays Creuse-Thaurion-Gartempe
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Michel Conchon
Area
 • Land1 9.14 km2 (3.53 sq mi)
Population (2008)
 • Population2 150
 • Population2 Density 16/km2 (43/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code 23175 / 23150
Elevation 486–647 m (1,594–2,123 ft)
(avg. 595 m or 1,952 ft)

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.

Sous-Parsat is a commune in the Creuse department in the Limousin region in central France.

Geography

An area of lakes and streams, farming and forestry comprising the village and several hamlets situated some 12 miles (19 km) northwest of Aubusson, at the junction of the D17, D45 and the D60 roads.

Population

Historical population
Year Pop.  ±%  
1962 179—    
1968 203+13.4%
1975 191−5.9%
1982 181−5.2%
1990 155−14.4%
1999 138−11.0%
2008 150+8.7%

Sights

  • The ruins of a seventeenth-century church at Mareille-au-Prieur.
  • 2 Roman columns.
  • A washhouse and horse-trough at Le Pont.
  • The church, with parts dating from the twelfth century and paintings by Gabriel Chabrat realised between in the 1980s.
  • Apocalypse
  • Crucifixion
  • Flight to Egypt

See also

References

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