Fontpédrouse (; ca, Fontpedrosa) is a
commune
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Administrative-territorial entities
* Commune (administrative division), a municipality or township
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in the
Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern
France
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Geography
Fontpédrouse is located in the
canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes The canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes is an administrative division of the Pyrénées-Orientales department, in southern France. It was created at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Prades.
It c ...
and in the
arrondissement of Prades
The arrondissement of Prades is an arrondissement of France in the Pyrénées-Orientales department ( Northern Catalonia) in the Occitanie region. It has 123 communes. Its population is 59,828 (2016), and its area is .
Composition
The communes ...
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Fontpédrouse-Saint-Thomas-les-Bains station
Fontpédrouse-Saint-Thomas-les-Bains station ( French: ''Gare de Fontpédrouse-Saint-Thomas-les-Bains'') is a railway station in Fontpédrouse, Occitanie, southern France. Within TER Occitanie
TER Occitanie or liO TER Occitanie is the region ...
has rail connections to Villefranche-de-Conflent and Latour-de-Carol.
History
On , the commune of
Prats-Saint-Thomas was merged into Fontpédrouse.
In December 1932, parts of the hamlets of Prats-Saint-Thomas were destroyed because of heavy rains which caused several landslides.
[ Fabricio Cardenas]
Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, ''Pluies diluviennes en décembre 1932''
3 February 2014
Population
See also
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Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department
The Pyrénées-Orientales department is composed of 226 communes.
Most of the territory (except for the district of Fenolheda) formed part of the Principality of Catalonia until 1659, and Catalan is still spoken (in addition to French) by a ...
References
Communes of Pyrénées-Orientales
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