Mortroux

Mortroux
Commune

Coat of arms
Mortroux
Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
Mortroux
Coordinates: 46°23′54″N 1°54′58″E / 46.3983°N 1.9161°E / 46.3983; 1.9161Coordinates: 46°23′54″N 1°54′58″E / 46.3983°N 1.9161°E / 46.3983; 1.9161
Country France
Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Creuse
Arrondissement Guéret
Canton Bonnat
Intercommunality CC Portes de la Creuse en Marche
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Guy Marsaleix
Area1 13.28 km2 (5.13 sq mi)
Population (2008)2 309
 • Density 23/km2 (60/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
 • Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code 23136 /23220
Elevation 300–424 m (984–1,391 ft)
(avg. 420 m or 1,380 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.

Mortroux is a commune in the Creuse department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of central France.

Geography

A farming area comprising the village and a couple of hamlets situated some 14 miles (23 km) north of Guéret at the junction of the D46, D56 and the D56a roads.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1962457—    
1968484+5.9%
1975420−13.2%
1982384−8.6%
1990331−13.8%
1999318−3.9%
2008309−2.8%

Sights

  • The church, dating from the twelfth century.
  • A seventeenth-century lime-tree, the "Sully", named after a Prime Minister under the reign of Henri IV.
  • Pottery finials above windows on a couple of houses.

See also

References


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