Beaudéan

Commune

Beaudéan and the church of Saint-Martin

Coat of arms

Beaudéan

Location within Occitanie region

Beaudéan

Coordinates: 43°01′45″N 0°10′10″E / 43.0292°N 0.1694°ECoordinates: 43°01′45″N 0°10′10″E / 43.0292°N 0.1694°E

Country

Haute-Bigorre

Government

• Mayor (2008–2014)

Jacques Brune (PRG)

Area¹

16.7 km² (6.4 sq mi)

Population (2009)²

390

• Density

23/km² (60/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

65078 /65710

Elevation

611–2,262 m (2,005–7,421 ft)
(avg. 650 m or 2,130 ft)

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

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

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

Beaudéan (Occitan: Beudian) is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Beaudéannais or Beaudéannaises.

Beaudean is located at the mouth of the Lesponne valley and the Campan valley in the inter-communal cooperative of Haute-Bigorre some 20 km south by south-east of Tarbes and 5 km south of Bagnères-de-Bigorre. Access to the commune is by the D935 road from Pouzac in the north which passes through the eastern tip of the commune and the village and continues south-east to Campan. The D29 branches off the D935 in the commune and goes along the length of the commune south-west to end in Chiroulet. Apart from the village there is the hamlet of Serris. The commune is mixed forest and farmland in the north and rugged forested mountains in the south.

The Adour river forms the north-eastern border of the commune as it flows north-west eventually joining the Atlantic ocean at Boucau. The Adour de Lesponne flows from the south-west of the commune, forming much of the western border as it flows north-east, gathering tributaries such as the Ruisseau du Brouilh (which forms the southern border of the commune), the Ruisseau de Narbios, the Hourquet, and the Ruisseau de Hount Hérède, to join the Adour at the eastern corner of the commune. The Serris river flows north-east through the commune and the village to join the Adour. The Ruisseau de Binaros forms most of the eastern border of the commune as it flows north to join the Adour de Lesponne in the narrow "neck" of the commune.

Historical names:

Beaudéan appears as Beaudean on the 1750 Cassini Map and the same on the 1790 version.

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