La Canourgue

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La Canourgue (Script error: No such module "IPA".; Template:Langx) is a commune in the Lozère department in southern France.[2] In 1973 it absorbed three former communes: Auxillac, La Capelle and Montjézieu.[3] 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.

La Canourgue is a rural commune having experienced a strong increase in population since 1962. It is the central city of the agglomeration of La Canourgue. Its inhabitants are called the Canourguais or Canourguaises.

The commune of La Canourgue has been labeled "Village étape" since 2006.

Geography

Location

The commune is located in the southwest of the Lozère department, in Gévaudan, on the Urugne (small tributary of the Lot) at the foot of the Causse de Sauveterre which the commune occupies in large part.

The commune served as a location for the 2006 film A Good Year.[4]

Population

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