Vivès
Vivès (Catalan: Vivers) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.
Vivès
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Coordinates: 42°31′46″N 2°45′52″E | |
Country | France |
Region | Occitanie |
Department | Pyrénées-Orientales |
Arrondissement | Céret |
Canton | Vallespir-Albères |
Intercommunality | Vallespir |
Government | |
• Mayor (2014-2020) | Jacques Arnaudiès |
Area 1 | 11.07 km2 (4.27 sq mi) |
Population (2017-01-01)[1] | 176 |
• Density | 16/km2 (41/sq mi) |
Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
INSEE/Postal code | 66233 /66490 |
Elevation | 114–323 m (374–1,060 ft) (avg. 228 m or 748 ft) |
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. |
Geography
Vivès is located in the canton of Vallespir-Albères and in the arrondissement of Céret.
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Map of Vivès and its surrounding communes
Population and society
Demography
Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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1968 | 73 | — |
1975 | 58 | −3.23% |
1982 | 60 | +0.49% |
1990 | 75 | +2.83% |
1999 | 128 | +6.12% |
2007 | 163 | +3.07% |
2012 | 172 | +1.08% |
2017 | 176 | +0.46% |
Source: INSEE[2] |
Education
The school of Vivès had about 20 children in 1947 and only 8 in 1966, the year it was closed.[3] Since then, the nearest school is in Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts.
Health
The village of Vivès seems to have benefited, at least until the beginning of the twentieth century, from a local family of healers, renowned through the whole department of Pyrénées-Orientales.[4]
There are no doctors nor any pharmacy in Vivès nowadays, the nearest being in Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts.[5] · [6] The nearest clinic is in Céret[7] and the nearest public hospital is in Perpignan.[8]
References
- "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
- De Vivers à Vivès : du 2ème au 3ème millénaire, mémoires d'un village. Vivès: Mairie de Vivès. 1999.
- Fabricio Cardenas (18 November 2014). "Des guérisseurs à Vivès en 1882". Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales (in French). Retrieved 18 June 2016.
- Pages Jaunes, Pharmacies near Vivès
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