Caussade

The tower of Arlet, in Caussade

Coat of arms

Caussade

Location within Occitanie region

Caussade

Coordinates: 44°09′44″N 1°32′16″E / 44.1622°N 1.5378°ECoordinates: 44°09′44″N 1°32′16″E / 44.1622°N 1.5378°E

Country

Caussade

Quercy caussadais

Government

• Mayor (2008–2014)

François Bonhomme

Area¹

45.73 km² (17.66 sq mi)

Population (2006)²

6,728

• Density

150/km² (380/sq mi)

Time zone

CET (UTC+1)

• Summer (DST)

CEST (UTC+2)

INSEE/Postal code

82037 / 82300

Elevation

95–208 m (312–682 ft)
(avg. 109 m or 358 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.

Caussade is a commune in the district of Montauban, located in the Tarn-et-Garonne department in the Occitanie region in the south of France.

Caussade, an ancient city of the white Quercy or lower Quercy, is located in the hills of Quercy and nicknamed "hat city" due to milliner production in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The straw hat, the famous boater was made in Caussade.

The inhabitants are called the Caussadais and Caussadaises .

For two kilometres, geological mutations overwhelm the landscape a geomorphologist warned. Leaving the plateau of Limognes and its western and southern extension as a low Jurassic plateau, further descent is made into the former Oligocene Gulf of Monteils to reach the former floodplain of the Aveyron which meets the Tarn downstream from Montauban. The plateau, from karstic rock edaphic soil is poor and dry but gives way to green valleys and fruit, common in the Valley of the Garonne. The difference is explained by the soil and geological base.

The plateaus of limestone are permeable, with the notable exception of sinkholes, and ouvalas covered with clay and siderolithic deposits of Phosphor. Precipitation sometimes exceeds 850 mm annually .

Caussade is situated in the valley of the Lère, a tributary of the Aveyron . The town had 3042 inhabitants in with 5971 households in the 1999 census and a population density of more than 130 per square kilometre in 2004. With 6268 inhabitants, the municipality has a population density of 131 per square kilometre, in common with neighbouring Monteils a small town of 7046 inhabitants in 2004. The home ownership rate is 51.7%.

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