Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang
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 Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang
Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region
Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang
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| Coordinates: 44°51′55″N 0°47′53″E / 44.8653°N 0.7981°ECoordinates: 44°51′55″N 0°47′53″E / 44.8653°N 0.7981°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Department | Dordogne |
| Arrondissement | Bergerac |
| Canton | Lalinde |
| Intercommunality | Entre Dordogne et Louyre |
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| • Mayor (2014–2020) | Patrice Masneri |
| Area1 | 15.85 km2 (6.12 sq mi) |
| Population (2014)2 | 898 |
| • Density | 57/km2 (150/sq mi) |
| Time zone | CET (UTC+1) |
| • Summer (DST) | CEST (UTC+2) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 24260 /24150 |
| Elevation | 35–207 m (115–679 ft) (avg. 49 m or 161 ft) |
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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. |
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1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.
Mauzac-et-Grand-Castang is a commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France.
Mauzac and Grand-Castang was created on January 1, 1973, by combining the former communes of Mauzac and Saint-Meyme de Rozens in the valley and Grand-Castang on the hillside.
The village has been occupied from prehistoric times, as is evidenced by numerous traces (fragments of axes, scrapers...).
Its past is closely linked with the Dordogne River, which became an important commercial and cultural route in the 18th and 19th centuries. Mauzac is one of the active ports that feed the interior of the region. Only a few vestiges of the built quay remain, just some paving stones cut in the old-fashioned way, identical to those still seen in Bordeaux. Constructions of the Canal de Lalinde to facilitate navigation for the scows, of the hydroelectric dam, and the arrival of the railway in the 19th century, changed the life of the village considerably.
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