La Rochette, Charente

La Rochette is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

La Rochette
The town hall in La Rochette
Location of La Rochette
La Rochette
La Rochette
Coordinates: 45°48′07″N 0°18′53″E
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentCharente
ArrondissementAngoulême
CantonVal de Tardoire
IntercommunalityBandiat-Tardoire
Government
  Mayor (20082014) Laurent Banicic
Area
1
10.99 km2 (4.24 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
533
  Density48/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
16282 /16110
Elevation66–115 m (217–377 ft)
(avg. 91 m or 299 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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.[2]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1800767    
1806748−2.5%
1821742−0.8%
1831864+16.4%
1841801−7.3%
1846805+0.5%
1851851+5.7%
1856765−10.1%
1861760−0.7%
1866793+4.3%
1872654−17.5%
1876636−2.8%
1881631−0.8%
1886638+1.1%
1891595−6.7%
1896609+2.4%
1901575−5.6%
1906529−8.0%
1911549+3.8%
1921501−8.7%
1926480−4.2%
1931440−8.3%
1936500+13.6%
1946391−21.8%
1954393+0.5%
1962398+1.3%
1968401+0.8%
1975422+5.2%
1982436+3.3%
1990445+2.1%
1999442−0.7%
2008551+24.7%

See also

References

  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. Cosimo Posth; Gabriel Renaud; Alissa Mittnik; Dorothée G. Drucker; Hélène Rougier; Christophe Cupillard; Frédérique Valentin; Corinne Thevenet; Anja Furtwängler; Christoph Wißing; Michael Francken; Maria Malina; Michael Bolus; Martina Lari; Elena Gigli; Giulia Capecchi; Isabelle Crevecoeur; Cédric Beauval; Damien Flas; Mietje Germonpré; Johannes van der Plicht; Richard Cottiaux; Bernard Gély; Annamaria Ronchitelli; Kurt Wehrberger; Dan Grigorescu; Jiří Svoboda; Patrick Semal; David Caramelli; Hervé Bocherens; Katerina Harvati; Nicholas J. Conard; Wolfgang Haak; Adam Powell (March 21, 2016). "Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe". Current Biology. 26 (6): 827–833. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.037. hdl:2440/114930. PMID 26853362.


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