La Poitevinière

La Poitevinière
La Poitevinière
Location within Pays de la Loire region
La Poitevinière
Coordinates: 47°13′43″N 0°53′46″W / 47.2286°N 0.8961°W / 47.2286; -0.8961Coordinates: 47°13′43″N 0°53′46″W / 47.2286°N 0.8961°W / 47.2286; -0.8961
Country France
Region Pays de la Loire
Department Maine-et-Loire
Arrondissement Cholet
Canton Beaupréau
Area1 26.84 km2 (10.36 sq mi)
Population (2006[1])2 977
  Density 36/km2 (94/sq mi)
Demonym(s) Pictavinérien, Pictavinérienne
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 49243 /49510
Elevation 57–126 m (187–413 ft)
(avg. 83 m or 272 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

La Poitevinière is a former commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.

On 15 December 2015, Andrezé, Beaupréau, La Chapelle-du-Genêt, Gesté, Jallais, La Jubaudière, Le Pin-en-Mauges, La Poitevinière, Saint-Philbert-en-Mauges and Villedieu-la-Blouère merged becoming one commune called Beaupréau-en-Mauges.

Geography

The commune is traversed by the Èvre river.

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