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Accolay was a commune in the Yonne department of France, situated within the arrondissement of Auxerre and the canton of Joux-la-Ville. Located in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region, the area covered 9.27 square kilometers at an elevation of 231 meters above sea level. It shared borders with Cravant, Bazarnes, Bessy-sur-Cure, and Prégilbert. The postal code for the locality was 89460.
The population of Accolay was recorded as 447, with another source listing 446. On December 31, 2016, the commune was dissolved and replaced by the new entity of Deux Rivières. Current weather data for the location indicates a temperature of 16.2 degrees, humidity of 86 percent, pressure of 1028, and wind speed of 1.8.
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- Locality
- Deux Rivières
- Region
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Country
- France
- Population
- 446
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Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Bourgogne-Franche-Comté
- Department
- Yonne
- Arrondissement
- Auxerre
- Canton
- Joux-la-Ville
- Commune
- Deux Rivières
- Area
- 9.27 km (3.58 sq mi)
- Density
- 48.4/km (125/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Elevation
- 110–231 m (361–758 ft)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- delegated commune
- Official name
- Accolay
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Auxerre
- Population
- 447
- Area
- 9.27
- Elevation
- 156
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Vermenton
- Image
- Vol lolo 077.jpg
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- Commons category
- Accolay (Yonne)
- postal code
- 89460
- replaced by
- Deux Rivières
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2016-12-31
- associated electoral district
- canton of Joux-la-Ville
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Encyclopedic overview
View from the Cure and the Accolay Canal in Accolay Accolay ( French pronunciation: [akɔlɛ]) is a former commune in the Yonne department in Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in north-central France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged with Cravant into the new commune of Deux Rivières.
The commune is bordered by the Cure River and the Nivernais Canal, just beside it. The canal junction was built in the 19th century to transport wood by timber rafting from the Morvan forests to Paris.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Accolay” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.