Camarès (; oc, Lo Pont de Camarés) is a
commune
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in the
Aveyron
Aveyron (; oc, Avairon; ) is a department in the region of Occitania, Southern France. It was named after the river Aveyron. Its inhabitants are known as ''Aveyronnais'' (masculine) or ''Aveyronnaises'' (feminine) in French. The inhabitants ...
department in southern
France
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.
Geography
Situated 23 kilometres south of Saint-Affrique and 80 kilometres from Béziers, the commune is traversed by the
Dourdou de Camarès
The Dourdou de Camarès (, literally ''Dourdou of Camarès''; oc, Dordon de Camarés) is an long river in the Tarn, Hérault and Aveyron departments in southern France. Its source is in the Parc naturel régional du Haut-Languedoc, in the co ...
and sits at the foot of the Monts de Lacaune.
Its red soil, ''le rougier'', is a schistose sandstone. It covers a rich substrate which was exploited for the first mines of copper and argentiferous lead during the Gallo-Roman era.
The commune includes a thermal basin with springs that are no longer in use today: Prugnes les eaux, Andabre, Le Cayla et Sylvanès (eau thermale).
Population
See also
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Communes of the Aveyron department
The following is a list of the 285 Communes of France, communes of the Aveyron Departments of France, department of France.
The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):
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References
Communes of Aveyron
Aveyron communes articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
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