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Place details
- Locality
- Gargas
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Country
- France
- Population
- 3,159
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
- Department
- Vaucluse
- Arrondissement
- Apt
- Canton
- Apt
- Mayor 2023 2026
- Bruno Vigne-Ulmier
- Area
- 14.9 km (5.8 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 3,035
- Density
- 204/km (528/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 84047 /84400
- Elevation
- 201–461 m (659–1,512 ft) , (avg. 420 m or 1,380 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Gargas
- Population
- 3035
- Area
- 14.9
- Elevation
- 253
- Official website
- www.ville-gargas.fr
- Image
- Gargas 2 by JM Rosier.JPG
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- Commons category
- Gargas (Vaucluse)
- postal code
- 84400
- male population
- 1454
- female population
- 1585
- P8168
- Mohamed Sherif Pasha
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-4-90-74-12-70
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Gargas ( French pronunciation: [ɡaʁɡas]; Occitan: Gargaç) is a commune in the Vaucluse department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in southeastern France. The writer Raymond Jean (1925–2012) died in Gargas.
Gargas is the site of old ochre mining operations. In 2009 the Mine d'Ocre de Bruoux was opened for tourists.
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