Lagamas
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Lagamas (Occitan: L'Agamàs) is a commune in the Hérault département in the Occitanie region in southern France.
Geography
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This commune is located in the Languedoc-Roussillon region, in the Hérault département, in the canton of Gignac. The village is part of the 4th constituency of Hérault.
Climate
In 2020, Météo-France published a typology of climates in mainland France in which the commune is exposed to a Mediterranean climate and is in the Provence, Languedoc-Roussillon climatic region, characterised by low rainfall in summer, very good sunshine (2,600 h/year), a hot summer 21.5 °C (71 °F), very dry air in summer, dry in all seasons, strong winds (frequency of 40 to 50% of winds > 5 m/s) and little fog.[3]
For the period 1971-2000, the average annual temperature was 14.3 °C (58 °F) with an annual temperature range of 16.5 °C (62 °F). The average annual total rainfall is 849 mm, with 6.8 days of precipitation in January and 3.1 days in July. For the period 1991-2020, the average annual temperature observed at the nearest weather station, located in the commune of Saint-André-de-Sangonis, 3 km away as the crow flies,[4] is 15.5 °C (60 °F) and the average annual total rainfall is 652.4 mm.[5][6] For the future, climate parameters for the municipality estimated for 2050 according to different greenhouse gas emission scenarios can be consulted on a dedicated website published by Météo-France in November 2022.[Map 1]
Urbanism
Land use
The commune's land use, as revealed by the European biophysical land cover database Corine Land Cover (CLC), is characterised by the importance of agricultural land (96.9% in 2018), an increase compared to 1990 (77%). The detailed breakdown in 2018 is as follows: permanent crops (56.5%), heterogeneous agricultural areas (40.4%), forests (3%).[7] Changes in land use in the municipality and its infrastructure can be seen on various maps of the area: the Cassini map (eighteenth century), the carte d'état-major (1820-1866) and IGN maps or aerial photos for the current period (1950 to the present).
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Population
Changes in the number of inhabitants are known from population censuses carried out in the commune since 1793. For communes with fewer than 10,000 inhabitants, a census of the entire population is carried out every five years, with the legal populations for the intervening years estimated by interpolation or extrapolation.[8] For the commune, the first exhaustive census under the new system was carried out in 2005.[9]
In 2021, the commune had a population of 110,[a] unchanged from 2015 (Hérault: +7.29%, France excluding Mayotte: +1.84%).
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Source: EHESS[10] and INSEE (1968–2017)[11] |
Architecture
The church, Notre-Dame de la Garrigue, was built by Élodie Martin, the widow of the textile magnate Jean-Pierre Balsan as a homage to her husband. The Balsan family is known to have inhabited Lagamas since at least 1576. The church, with its unusual gothic style, is a miniature inspired by the Châteauroux cathedral, a city where the Balsan family had acquired the Manufacture Royale de Drap de Châteauroux in 1856.
The church was completed in around 1874.[12] An extensive renovation was finalised in 2007.
The same widow built the large mansion facing the church, known locally as the château. It hosts an annual multi-disciplinary artist residency organised by the Cornelius Arts Foundation.
See also
Notes
- ^ Legal municipal population in effect as of January 1, 2024, dated 2021, defined within the territorial boundaries in effect as of January 1, 2023, statistical reference date: January 1, 2021.
References
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
- ^ "Zonages climatiques en France métropolitaine". pluiesextremes.meteo.fr. Retrieved 3 March 2024..
- ^ "Orthodromie entre Lagamas et Saint-André-de-Sangonis". fr.distance.to. Retrieved 3 March 2024..
- ^ "Station Météo-France « St Andre De Sangonis » (commune de Saint-André-de-Sangonis) - fiche climatologique - période 1991-2020" (PDF). donneespubliques.meteofrance.fr. Retrieved 3 March 2024..
- ^ "Station Météo-France « St Andre De Sangonis » (commune de Saint-André-de-Sangonis) - fiche de métadonnées" (PDF). donneespubliques.meteofrance.fr. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
- ^ "CORINE Land Cover (CLC) - Répartition des superficies en 15 postes d'occupation des sols (métropole)". the site des données et études statistiques (Statistical data and studies site) from the Ministry of Ecological Transition. Retrieved 3 March 2024.
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- ^ "L'organisation du recensement". insee.fr.
- ^ "Calendrier départemental des recensements". insee.fr.
- ^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Lagamas, EHESS (in French).
- ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- ^ Base Mérimée: Eglise paroissiale Notre-Dame-de-la-Garrigue, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
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