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Place details
- Locality
- La Canourgue
- Region
- Occitanie
- Country
- France
- Population
- 2,126
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Occitania
- Department
- Lozère
- Arrondissement
- Mende
- Canton
- La Canourgue
- Intercommunality
- Aubrac Lot Causses Tarn
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Claude Malzac
- Area
- 104.29 km (40.27 sq mi)
- Population 2023
- 2,074
- Density
- 19.89/km (51.51/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 48034 /48500
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- La Canourgue
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Mende
- Population
- +2074
- Area
- +104.29
- Elevation
- +812
- Body of water
- Lot
- Head of government
- Jacques Blanc
- Shares border with
- Massegros Causses Gorges
- Official website
- www.la-canourgue.com
Article
La Canourgue ( French pronunciation: [la kanuʁɡ]; Occitan: La Canorga) is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France. In 1973 it absorbed three former communes: Auxillac, La Capelle and Montjézieu. It is sometimes referred to in French as "La petite Venise lozérienne", the Little Venice of Lozère.
Exposed to a mountain climate, it is drained by the Lot, the Urugne, the Chardonnet stream, the Felgeyre stream and by various other small watercourses. The commune has a remarkable natural heritage: a Natura 2000 network (the "Urugne valley") and four Natural zone of ecological, fauna and floral interest.