Morcenx

Morcenx
Morcenx
Administration
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine
Department	Landes
Arrondissement	Mont-de-Marsan
Canton	Morcenx
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes du Pays Morcenais
Mayor	Jean-Claude Deyres (2008–2014)
Statistics
Elevation	50–104 m (160–341 ft) (avg. 74 m/243 ft)
Land area1	62.08 km2 (23.97 sq mi)
Population2	4,573  (2006)
- Density	74 /km2 (190 /sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	40197/ 40110
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: 44°02′02″N 0°54′47″W / 44.0338888889°N 0.913055555556°W / 44.0338888889; -0.913055555556

Morcenx is a commune in the Landes department in Aquitaine in south-western France.

Geography

Commune situated in the grande-Lande in the Landes forest (forêt des Landes) on the Bez.
Access by the A63 freeway, exit 14 Onesse-et-Laharie.

History

Morcenx area, bordured with the Bez and it affluents, seems to have been occupied since the Prehistoric time. Have been found there silex tools, domestic fournitures and a cinerary box from the 1st Iron Age.
The church « sanctus Petrus de Morcencz » is mentioned in the Liber rubeus during the 12th century.