Mourjou
Sign in to saveMourjou (; Languedocien: Morjon, or Morjó) is a former commune in the Cantal department in south-central France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Puycapel. A chestnut fair is held annually during the third weekend of October.
Key facts
- French commune.name
- Mourjou
- French commune.image
- Mourjou-village.JPG
- French commune.caption
- Mourjou seen from Jalenques, during an autumn evening
- French commune.arrondissement
- Aurillac
- French commune.canton
- Maurs
- French commune.INSEE
- 15136
- French commune.postal code
- 15340
- French commune.commune
- Puycapel
- French commune.elevation m
- 480
- French commune.elevation min m
- 294
- French commune.elevation max m
- 663
- French commune.area km2
- 29.99
- French commune.population
- 292
- French commune.population date
- 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- commune of France
- Official name
- Mourjou
- Country
- France
- Located in
- Puycapel
- Population
- 312
- Area
- 29.99
- Elevation
- 491
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Saint-Constant-Fournoulès
- Image
- Mourjou-village.JPG
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- replaced by
- Puycapel
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2018-12-31
- Commons category
- Mourjou
- postal code
- 15340
- associated electoral district
- canton of Maurs
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Encyclopedic overview
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- Population
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Mourjou (; Languedocien: Morjon, or Morjó) is a former commune in the Cantal department in south-central France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune Puycapel. A chestnut fair is held annually during the third weekend of October.
The village is home to the Maison de la Chataigne, a museum dedicated to the chestnut: its history, its cultivation and harvesting, and its consumption. It is open from June to September every day of the week in the afternoon, except Monday.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Mourjou” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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