Cugand
{{Infobox French commune
|name = Cugand
|commune = Cugand-la-Bernardière
|image = G-85 Cugand Grotte 0988.JPG
|caption = A replica of the Lourdes Grotto
|image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Cugand (Vendée).svg
|arrondissement = La Roche-sur-Yon
|canton = Mortagne-sur-Sèvre
|INSEE = 85076
|postal code = 85610
|coordinates = {{coord|47.0631|-1.2533|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation min m = 13
|elevation max m = 71
|area km2 = 13.47
|population = 3746
|population date = 2022
|population footnotes = {{cite web|url=https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/fichier/8290591/ensemble.pdf|title=Populations de référence 2022|language=fr|trans-title=Reference populations 2022|publisher=INSEE|date=December 2024}}
}}
Cugand ({{IPA|fr|kyɡɑ̃}}) is a former commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.
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.[https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/commune/85076-cugand Commune de Cugand (85076)], INSEE
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.{{cite news |title=Ces deux communes de Vendée ne feront plus qu'une au 1er janvier 2025 |url=https://actu.fr/pays-de-la-loire/cugand_85076/ces-deux-communes-de-vendee-ne-feront-plus-quune-au-1er-janvier-2025_60892413.html |newspaper=L'Hebdo de Sèvre et Maine |date=1 April 2024 |access-date=6 January 2024}}{{cite web |title=Arrêté N°2024-DCL-BCL-519 portant création de la commune nouvelle de « Cugand-la-Bernardière » |url=https://www.cugand.fr/wp-content/uploads/sites/4/2024/01/Arrete-creation-commune-nouvelle-Cugand-La-Bernardiere030624.pdf |publisher=Prefect of Vendée |date=3 June 2024 |access-date=6 January 2024}}
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.{{Cite web |title=Un peu de géographie |url=https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http://pluiesextremes.meteo.fr/france-metropole/Un-peu-de-geographie.html#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url |publisher=Météo-France |access-date=9 August 2024 |website=archive.wikiwix.com}}
Population
{{Historical populations
|source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8200783?sommaire=8200811&geo=COM-85076], INSEE
|percentages = pagr
|align = none
|1968 |2199
|1975 |2425
|1982 |2525
|1990 |2627
|1999 |2776
|2010|3269
|2015|3448
|2021|3685
}}
Local life
= Sport =
- Sportive Union Bernardière Cugand : football division
- Basketball Association Cugand Bernardière : basketball division
- St Michel Handball : handball division
- "Les raquettes Cugandaises" : tennis division
- Athlétisme Mingot Association : athletics division
- TTAL Cugand : table tennis division
= Health =
- Health Center Les Caducées
= Schools =
- Private elementary school St Michel / Jeanne d'Arc
- Public elementary school Jean Moulin
= Culture =
- Cugand library
= Events =
- "Festival de Cugand", world dance and music, folk bands of the all world, during four days in August (20,000 spectators in 2005 for the 7th festival edition); last edition held in 2018{{cite news |last=Evain |first=Emeric |title=Fleurs, BBC, Sèvre et danse : bienvenue à Cugand, vue par sa maire |url=https://www.ouest-france.fr/pays-de-la-loire/montaigu-vendee-85600/nous-ne-voulons-surtout-pas-etre-une-cite-dortoir-d8da1178-be60-11ed-9958-ce650855cbcb |newspaper=Ouest-France |date=16 March 2023 |access-date=6 January 2024}}
References
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Category:Former communes of Vendée
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