Saint-Florent-le-Vieil () 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

Maine-et-Loire Maine-et-Loire () is a department in the Loire Valley in the Pays de la Loire region in Western France. It is named after the two rivers, Maine and the Loire. It borders Mayenne and Sarthe to the north, Loire-Atlantique to the west, Indre-e ...

department in western

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. On 15 December 2015, it was merged into the new commune

Mauges-sur-Loire Mauges-sur-Loire (, literally ''Mauges on Loire'') is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department of western France. La Pommeraye is the municipal seat. History It was established on 15 December 2015 and consists of the former communes of Be ...

.Arrêté préfectoral
5 October 2015 Its population was 2,834 in 2019. The river

Èvre The Èvre () is a long river in western France, left tributary of the Loire. Its source is at Vezins, northeast of the village. It flows into the Loire at Le Marillais, east of the village. The Èvre flows through the following communes in t ...

forms the commune's western border, then flows into the

Loire The Loire (, also ; ; oc, Léger, ; la, Liger) is the longest river in France and the 171st longest in the world. With a length of , it drains , more than a fifth of France's land, while its average discharge is only half that of the Rhône ...

, forming the commune's northern border. Saint-Florent-le-Viel is located on the La Loire à vélo, itself a subset of the EuroVelo6, the trans-European bicycle route.

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