Cases-de-Pène

Cases-de-Pène
Cases-de-Pène
	Commune
	A general view of Cases-de-Pène
	Coat of arms
	Location of Cases-de-Pène
	Cases-de-Pène Cases-de-Pène
	Coordinates: 42°46′49″N 2°47′16″E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Perpignan
Canton	La Vallée de l'Agly
Intercommunality	Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Théophile Martinez
Area 1	13.38 km2 (5.17 sq mi)
Population (2017-01-01)[1]	926
• Density	69/km2 (180/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	66041 /66600
Elevation	36–362 m (118–1,188 ft) ; (avg. 46 m or 151 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Cases-de-Pène (Catalan: Les Cases de Pena) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Localisation

Cases-de-Pène is located in the canton of La Vallée de l'Agly and in the arrondissement of Perpignan.

Map of Cases-de-Pène and its surrounding communes

Neighbouring communes

Politics and administration

Mayors

Mayor	Term start	Term end

Michèle Jodar	?	2001
Jeannine Rolland	2001	2008
Théophile Martinez	2008

Population and society

Demography

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	483	—
1975	334	−5.13%
1982	387	+2.13%
1990	406	+0.60%
1999	430	+0.64%
2007	685	+5.99%
2012	834	+4.01%
2017	926	+2.11%
Source: INSEE[2]

Education

The town of Cases-de-Pène has a kindergarten and elementary school, with about 112 children.[3]

Following a conflict between the mayor and the teacher in 1908, as she refused to resign, the mayor had a brickwall built in front of the school's entrance to force her to leave.[4]

References

"Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, École primaire publique de Cases-de-Pène
Cárdenas, Fabricio (2014). 66 petites histoires du Pays Catalan [66 Little Stories of Catalan Country] (in French). Perpignan: Ultima Necat. ISBN 978-2-36771-006-8. OCLC 893847466.

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[1] "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.

[pophist-2] Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

[3] Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, École primaire publique de Cases-de-Pène

[4] Cárdenas, Fabricio (2014). 66 petites histoires du Pays Catalan [66 Little Stories of Catalan Country] (in French). Perpignan: Ultima Necat. ISBN 978-2-36771-006-8. OCLC 893847466.