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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
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Gargas
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Apt
- Population
- 3035
- Area
- 14.9
- Elevation
- 253
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00
- Shares border with
- Saint-Saturnin-lès-Apt
- Official website
- www.ville-gargas.fr
- Image
- Gargas 2 by JM Rosier.JPG
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- Commons category
- Gargas (Vaucluse)
- postal code
- 84400
- different from
- Gargas
- associated electoral district
- canton of Apt
- male population
- 1454
- female population
- 1585
- P8168
- Mohamed Sherif Pasha
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-4-90-74-12-70
Sources (4)
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gargas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.