Haute-Loire

Haute-Loire
Coat of Arms of Haute-Loire
Location
Administration
Department number:	43
Region:	Auvergne
Prefecture:	Le Puy-en-Velay
Subprefectures:	Brioude Yssingeaux
Arrondissements:	3
Cantons:	35
Communes:	260
President of the General Council:	Gérard Roche
Statistics
Population	Ranked 85th
-1999	209,113
Population density:	42/km2
Land area¹:	4977 km2
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2.

Haute-Loire (Occitan: Naut Léger) is a department in south-central France named after the Loire River.

History

Haute-Loire is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Auvergne, Languedoc, and Lyonnais.

Geography

Haute-Loire is part of the current regions of France of Auvergne and is surrounded by the departments of Loire, Ardèche, Lozère, Cantal, and Puy-de-Dôme.

The department covers the upper reaches of the Loire.

Demography

The inhabitants of the department are called Altiligériens.

Notable residents

• Claude-Jean Allouez, born in Saint-Didier-en-Velay, Jesuit missionary to North America^[1]

See also

• Cantons of the Haute-Loire department
• Communes of the Haute-Loire department
• Arrondissements of the Haute-Loire department

References

• 1. ^ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Marquis Who's Who. 1967. 

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Haute-Loire

• (French) Prefecture website
• (French) Regional council website
• (English) Haute-Loire at the Open Directory Project

• (English) Tourist website
• (English) The Haut-Allier Website concerned with the western half of the Haute Loire which follows the relatively unknown Allier valley and gorges
• (English) (French) Regordane Info Independent portal for the Regordane Way or St Gilles Trail. (The Regordane Way crosses The Haute-Loire, commencing from Le Puy southwards)

Coordinates: 45°00′00″N 4°00′00″E / 45.000°N 4.000°E / 45.000; 4.000