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Place details
- Locality
- La Rochette
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Country
- France
- Population
- 530
via OpenStreetMap · GeoNames
Key facts
- Country
- France
- Region
- Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- Department
- Charente
- Arrondissement
- Angoulême
- Canton
- Val de Tardoire
- Intercommunality
- La Rochefoucauld - Porte du Périgord
- Mayor 2020 2026
- Vincent Ringeade
- Area
- 10.99 km (4.24 sq mi)
- Density
- 47.6/km (123/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+01:00 ( CET )
- Summer dst
- UTC+02:00 ( CEST )
- Insee postal code
- 16282 /16110
- Elevation
- 66–115 m (217–377 ft) , (avg. 91 m or 299 ft)
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
MAIRIE DE LA ROCHETTE
larochette16.fr →Link to the official site · 447 chars · not written by Vinony
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- La Rochette
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Arrondissement of Angoulême
- Population
- 523
- Area
- 10.99
- Elevation
- 86
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Val-de-Bonnieure
- Official website
- www.larochette16.fr
- Image
- Rochette eg6.JPG
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- Commons category
- La Rochette (Charente)
- postal code
- 16110
- different from
- La Rochette
- associated electoral district
- canton of Val de Tardoire
- male population
- 267
- female population
- 267
- P8168
- Volga
- email address
- mailto:[email protected]
- phone number
- +33-5-45-63-90-76
- fax number
- +33-5-45-63-95-04
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Encyclopedic overview
La Rochette ( French pronunciation: [la ʁɔʃɛt] ) is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.
In 2016, an ancient hunter-gatherer that was excavated at La Rochette was found to carry the mtDNA haplogroup M. The Late Pleistocene specimen was dated to 28,000 years ago.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “La Rochette” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.