Fontpédrouse (; ca, Fontpedrosa) is a commune in the

Pyrénées-Orientales Pyrénées-Orientales (; ca, Pirineus Orientals ; oc, Pirenèus Orientals ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean ...

department in southern

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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 ...

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 ...

. Fontpédrouse-Saint-Thomas-les-Bains station has rail connections to Villefranche-de-Conflent and Latour-de-Carol. Map commune FR insee code 66080

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

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Communes of Pyrénées-Orientales {{PyrénéesOrientales-geo-stub

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