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Darnac (; ) is a former
commune A commune is an alternative term for an intentional community. Commune or comună or comune or other derivations may also refer to: Administrative-territorial entities * Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township ** Communes of ...
in the
Haute-Vienne Haute-Vienne (; oc, Nauta Vinhana, ; English: Upper Vienne) is a department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwest-central France. Named after the Vienne River, it is one of the twelve departments that together constitute Nouvelle-Aquitai ...
department in the
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in western
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. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Val-d'Oire-et-Gartempe.Arrêté préfectoral
3 August 2018, modified 19 October 2018


Geography

The river
Brame The Brame ( oc, Brama, french: la Brame) is a long river in the Creuse and Haute-Vienne ''départements'', central France. Its source is at La Souterraine. It flows generally west. It is a right tributary of the Gartempe into which it flows betw ...
forms all of the commune's northern border, then flows into the
Gartempe The Gartempe () is a French river, long. It is a left tributary of the Creuse, which it joins in La Roche-Posay. Its source is in the municipality of Peyrabout. Among its tributaries are the Anglin, the Brame, the Semme and the Ardour. The ...
, which forms all of its western border. Inhabitants are known as ''Darnachauds''.


See also

*
Communes of the Haute-Vienne department The following is a list of the 195 communes of the Haute-Vienne department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Former communes of Haute-Vienne {{HauteVienne-geo-stub