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Calmeilles
Calmella | |
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 A street leading to the small square of Pedrissos, in Calmeilles | |
Location of Calmeilles  | |
  Calmeilles  Calmeilles | |
| Coordinates: 42°33′11″N 2°40′30″E / 42.5531°N 2.675°E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Occitania |
| Department | Pyrénées-Orientales |
| Arrondissement | Céret |
| Canton | Les Aspres |
| Intercommunality | Aspres |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Gérard Chinaud[1] |
Area 1 | 13.22 km2 (5.10 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 60 |
| • Density | 4.5/km2 (12/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 66032 /66400 |
| Elevation | 256–784 m (840–2,572 ft) (avg. 469 m or 1,539 ft) |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Calmeilles (French pronunciation: [kalmɛj] ⓘ; Catalan: Calmella) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Historically and culturally, the commune is in the Aspres region, a small Roussillon territory between the Têt valley in the North and the Tech valley in the South.
Exposed to a principally oceanic climate, it is drained by the Canterrane and Ample rivers, and various other smaller ones. The commune has a remarkable natural heritage made up of three natural areas of ecological, faunal and floral interest.
Calmeilles is a rural commune with 60 inhabitants in 2021, having experienced a peak population of 384 in 1821. It is part of the “aire d'attraction de Perpignan” (Perpignan attraction area). Its inhabitants are called Calmeillens or Calmeillennes.
- ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
- ^ "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.