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Place details
- Locality
- Putanges-le-Lac
- Region
- Normandie
- Country
- France
- Population
- 184
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Normandy
- Department
- Orne
- Arrondissement
- Argentan
- Canton
- Athis-de-l'Orne
- Commune
- Putanges-le-Lac
- Area
- 10.96 km (4.23 sq mi)
- Density
- 15.3/km (39.7/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Elevation
- 65–251 m (213–823 ft) , (avg. 235 m or 771 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- delegated commune
- Official name
- La Forêt-Auvray
- Country
- France
- Located in
- arrondissement of Argentan
- Population
- 171
- Area
- 10.96
- Elevation
- 251
- Shares border with
- Saint-Philbert-sur-Orne
- Image
- Eglise la forêt Auvray 61.jpg
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- Commons category
- La Forêt-Auvray
- replaced by
- Putanges-le-Lac
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-12-31
- postal code
- 61210
- associated electoral district
- canton of Athis-Val de Rouvre
- P8168
- Richard Schweizer
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Encyclopedic overview
La Forêt-Auvray ( French pronunciation: [la fɔʁɛ ovʁɛ] ) is a former commune in the Orne department in north-western France. On 1 January 2016, it was merged into the new commune of Putanges-le-Lac. It is located about 200 km west of Paris, 45 km south of Caen, 55 km north-west of Alençon.
The former commune is part of the area known as Suisse Normande.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Forêt-Auvray” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.