Haute-Vienne

Haute-Vienne
Coat of Arms of Haute-Vienne
Location
Administration
Department number:	87
Region:	Limousin
Prefecture:	Limoges
Subprefectures:	Bellac Rochechouart
Arrondissements:	3
Cantons:	42
Communes:	201
President of the General Council:	Marie-Françoise Pérol-Dumont PS
Statistics
Population	Ranked 62nd
-1999	353,893
Population density:	64/km2
Land area¹:	5520 km2
¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2.

Haute-Vienne is a French department named after the Vienne River. It is one of three departments that together constitute the French region of Limousin.

The chief and largest city of the Haute-Vienne is Limoges. The other towns in the department each have fewer than 20,000 inhabitants.

Geography

The source of the Charente River is in the department, in the commune of Chéonnac, near Rochechouart.

The neighboring departments are: Creuse, Corrèze, Dordogne, Charente, Vienne and Indre.

Arrondissements

The three arrondissements of the Haute-Vienne department are:

1. Arrondissement of Bellac, (subprefecture: Bellac) with eight cantons and 63 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 42,687 in 1990 and 40,120 in 1999, a decrease of 6.01%.
2. Arrondissement of Limoges, (prefecture of the Haute-Vienne department: Limoges) with 28 cantons and 108 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 274,643 in 1990 and 278,439 in 1999, an increase of 1.38%.
3. Arrondissement of Rochechouart, (subprefecture: Rochechouart) with six cantons and 30 communes. The population of the arrondissement was 36,263 in 1990 and 35,334 in 1999, a decrease of 2.56%.

Some Notable People

• Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, chemist and physicist.
• Jean-Baptiste Jourdan, Marshal of France.
• Sadi Carnot, French president.
• Auguste Renoir, painter, impressionist.
• Agnes Clancier, authoress.
• Geoff Bunn, conceptual artist.
• Jean Blanzat, author and journalist.
• Laetitia Milot, actress and model.
• Paul Rebeyrolle, artist.

See also

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

External links

• (French) Prefecture website
• (French) General Council website

Coordinates: 45°50′N 1°16′E / 45.833°N 1.267°E / 45.833; 1.267