Coustouges

Coustouges
Coustouges
Administration
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Céret
Canton	Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste
Intercommunality	Haut Vallespir
Mayor	Jean-Marie Malignon (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	411–1,120 m (1,348–3,670 ft) (avg. 827 m/2,713 ft)
Land area1	16.86 km2 (6.51 sq mi)
Population2	134  (1999)
- Density	8 /km2 (21 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	66061/ 66260
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.

Coordinates: 42°22′07″N 2°39′02″E / 42.3686111111°N 2.65055555556°E / 42.3686111111; 2.65055555556

Coustouges (Catalan: Costoja) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Inhabitants are called Coustougiens (male) or Coustougiennes (female).

Geography

Coustouges is the second most southerly commune of mainland France, after Lamanère. The village is situated at an altitude of 832 m.

History

Coustouges was previously recorded with the name Costogia in 936, Custajas or Costogia, and finally Coustouges (end of the 19th century). It was a dependancy of the Abbey of Arles-sur-Tech from 988 until the French Revolution.

Personalities linked to the commune

• Francesc Sabaté Llopart (1915-1960), anarchist, anti-Francoist maquisard,spent several years in Coustouges
• François Pinault, French entrepreneur, bought a house there in September 2004.

Images

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  Church of Notre-Dame de l’Aubépine

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  Tomb of an old family

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  View of the church from the square

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  Typical street name plaque in Coustouges

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department

References

• INSEE