Cauville-sur-Mer

Cauville-sur-Mer

Coat of arms
Cauville-sur-Mer

Coordinates: 49°35′46″N 0°07′48″E / 49.5961°N 0.13°E / 49.5961; 0.13Coordinates: 49°35′46″N 0°07′48″E / 49.5961°N 0.13°E / 49.5961; 0.13
Country France
Region Normandy
Department Seine-Maritime
Arrondissement Le Havre
Canton Montivilliers
Intercommunality Le Havre
Area1 11.19 km2 (4.32 sq mi)
Population (2006)2 1,387
 • Density 120/km2 (320/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
 • Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 76167 / 76930
Elevation 0–105 m (0–344 ft)
(avg. 95 m or 312 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.

Cauville-sur-Mer is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.

Geography

A farming village situated in the Pays de Caux, some 10 miles (16 km) northeast of Le Havre, at the junction of the D940 and D311 roads and on the coast of the English Channel. The cliffs here reach up to over 100 metres in height.

Heraldry

 The arms of Cauville-sur-Mer are blazoned :
Gules, in fess 3 stalks of wheat [palewise] slipped and leaved Or, and on a chief azure with a little triangular bit poking down, 2 seagulls volant respectant argent between 3 mullets of 5 Or.

Population

Historical population of Cauville-sur-Mer
Year1962196819751982199019992006
Population4804945051005116512431387
From the year 1962 on: No double counting—residents of multiple communes (e.g. students and military personnel) are counted only once.

Places of interest

See also

References

    Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cauville-sur-Mer.
    This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 7/12/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.