Bevaix

Infobox Swiss town
subject_name = Bevaix
municipality_name = Bevaix
municipality_type = municipality
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languages = French
canton = Neuchâtel
iso-code-region = CH-NE
district = Boudry
lat_d=46|lat_m=56|lat_NS=N|long_d=6|long_m=49|long_EW=E
postal_code = 2022
municipality_code = 6402
area = 10.76
elevation = 475|elevation_description=|highest=Petite Ecoeurne|highest_m=1335|lowest=Lake Neuchâtel|lowest_m=429
population = 3753|populationof = December 2007 | popofyear = 2005
website = www.bevaix.ch
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neighboring_municipalities= Boudry, Chevroux (VD), Cortaillod, Forel (FR), Gorgier
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Bevaix is a municipality in the district of Boudry in the canton of Neuchâtel in Switzerland.

The village of Bevaix (pop. 3603 in 2000) is sited in front of a small plateau, near Lake Neuchâtel, on a location showing both Bronze Age and Neolithic settlement and a priory dating to 998. Discovery nearby of several dugout canoes and boats illuminated techniques of shipbuilding in Gallo-Roman times. The village was predominantly agricultural until the building of a railway station in 1860, and the drainage of the surrounding wetlands around 1900, when the area became increasingly residential. Local industry focuses on microtechnology.

ee also

*Bevaix Boat, a Gallo-Roman shipwreck at the Lake of Neuchatel

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