La Rochette (French pronunciation: [la ʁɔʃɛt] ) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.
La Rochette | |
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The town hall in La Rochette | |
Coordinates: 45°48′07″N 0°18′53″E / 45.8019°N 0.3147°E | |
Country | France |
Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
Department | Charente |
Arrondissement | Angoulême |
Canton | Val de Tardoire |
Intercommunality | La Rochefoucauld - Porte du Périgord |
Government | |
• Mayor (2020–2026) | Vincent Ringeade[1] |
Area 1 | 10.99 km2 (4.24 sq mi) |
Population (2021)[2] | 530 |
• Density | 48/km2 (120/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 16282 /16110 |
Elevation | 66–115 m (217–377 ft) (avg. 91 m or 299 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
In 2016, an ancient hunter-gatherer that was excavated at La Rochette was found to carry the mtDNA haplogroup M. The Late Pleistocene specimen was dated to 28,000 years ago.[3]
Population
editYear | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1968 | 401 | — |
1975 | 422 | +0.73% |
1982 | 436 | +0.47% |
1990 | 445 | +0.26% |
1999 | 442 | −0.08% |
2009 | 556 | +2.32% |
2014 | 535 | −0.77% |
2020 | 533 | −0.06% |
Source: INSEE[4] |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 9 August 2021.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ Cosimo Posth; Gabriel Renaud; Alissa Mittnik; Dorothée G. Drucker; Hélène Rougier; Christophe Cupillard; Frédérique Valentin; Corinne Thevenet; Anja Furtwängler; Christoph Wißing; Michael Francken; Maria Malina; Michael Bolus; Martina Lari; Elena Gigli; Giulia Capecchi; Isabelle Crevecoeur; Cédric Beauval; Damien Flas; Mietje Germonpré; Johannes van der Plicht; Richard Cottiaux; Bernard Gély; Annamaria Ronchitelli; Kurt Wehrberger; Dan Grigorescu; Jiří Svoboda; Patrick Semal; David Caramelli; Hervé Bocherens; Katerina Harvati; Nicholas J. Conard; Wolfgang Haak; Adam Powell (21 March 2016). "Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe". Current Biology. 26 (6): 827–833. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.037. hdl:2440/114930. PMID 26853362.
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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