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The arrondissement of Argelès-Gazost is an arrondissement of France. It is part of the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region. Its capital is the city of Argelès-Gazost.
Argelès-Gazost | |
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![]() Location within the region Occitanie | |
Country | France |
Region | Occitanie |
Department | Hautes-Pyrénées |
No. of communes | 87 |
Subprefecture | Argelès-Gazost |
Area | 1,300.2 km2 (502.0 sq mi) |
Population | 37,527 |
INSEE code | 651 |
When the arrondissements were created in 1800, Argelès-Gazost was one of them in the Hautes-Pyrénées department.
In 1926, the arrondissement of Argelès-Gazost was eliminated but, in 1942, it was made again an arrondissement.[2]
It is the smallest of the arrondissements of the department with an area of 1,300.2 km2 (502 sq mi),[3] and a population 39,130 inhabitants; its population density is of 29.9 inhabitants/km².[4]
The arrondissement of Argelès-Gazost is bordered to the north by the arrondissement of Tarbes, to the east by the arrondissement of Bagnères-de-Bigorre, to the south by Spain and to west by the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department (Nouvelle-Aquitaine region).
After the reorganisation of the cantons in France,[5] cantons are not subdivisions of the arrondissements so they could have communes that belong to different arrondissements.
The three cantons found in the arrondissement of Argelès-Gazost have all their communes in the arrondissement:
The arrondissement of Argelès-Gazost has 87 communes; they are (with their INSEE codes):[6]
There are only 4 communes with more of 1,000 inhabitants in the arrondissement; they are:
INSEE code | Commune | Population[4] (2014) | Canton | Intercommunality |
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65286 | Lourdes | 14,361 | Lourdes-1 and Lourdes-2 | Le Pays de Lourdes |
65025 | Argelès-Gazost | 3,020 | La Vallée des Gaves | La Vallée d'Argelès-Gazost |
65395 | Saint-Pé-de-Bigorre | 1,187 | Lourdes-1 | Le Pays de Lourdes |
65362 | Pierrefitte-Nestalas | 1,184 | La Vallée des Gaves | La Vallée de Saint-Savin |
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