Cugand

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Cugand
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Cugand
Coordinates: 47°03′47″N1°15′12″W / 47.0631°N 1.2533°W / 47.0631; -1.2533
Country France
Region Pays de la Loire
Department Vendée
Arrondissement La Roche-sur-Yon
Canton Mortagne-sur-Sèvre
Commune Cugand-la-Bernardière
Area
1
13.47 km2 (5.20 sq mi)
Population
 (2022) [1]
3,746
  Density280/km2 (720/sq mi)
Time zone UTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+02:00 (CEST)
Postal code
85610
Elevation13–71 m (43–233 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Cugand (French pronunciation: [kyɡɑ̃] ) is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

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Before the creation of the departments with the French Republic, under the French Kingdom, the parish of Cugand was part of "Marches Bretagne-Poitou" (joint possession) and of Brittany on the religious level (Roman Catholic Diocese of Nantes).

It is part of the urban unit of Clisson. [2]

Cugand merged with the adjacent commune of La Bernardière on 1 January 2025 to form the commune of Cugand-la-Bernardière, although it remains a delegated commune with its own mayor. [3] [4]

Geography

Cugand is located along the Sèvre Nantaise, 28 km south-east of Nantes and 29 km south-west of Cholet.

Its neighboring communes were:

Climate

In 2020, Météo-France has published a typology of the climates of Metropolitan France in which Cugand is exposed to an Oceanic climate and located in the "Bretagne Orientale et Méridionale, Pays Nantais, Vendée" climatic region where the amount of rainfall is low in the summer. [5]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 2,199    
1975 2,425+1.41%
1982 2,525+0.58%
1990 2,627+0.50%
1999 2,776+0.61%
20103,269+1.50%
20153,448+1.07%
20213,685+1.11%
Source: INSEE [6]

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References

  1. "Populations de référence 2022" [Reference populations 2022](PDF) (in French). INSEE. December 2024.
  2. Commune de Cugand (85076), INSEE
  3. "Ces deux communes de Vendée ne feront plus qu'une au 1er janvier 2025". L'Hebdo de Sèvre et Maine. 1 April 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  4. "Arrêté N°2024-DCL-BCL-519 portant création de la commune nouvelle de « Cugand-la-Bernardière »" (PDF). Prefect of Vendée. 3 June 2024. Retrieved 6 January 2024.
  5. "Un peu de géographie". archive.wikiwix.com. Météo-France . Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  6. , INSEE
  7. Evain, Emeric (16 March 2023). "Fleurs, BBC, Sèvre et danse : bienvenue à Cugand, vue par sa maire". Ouest-France . Retrieved 6 January 2024.