L'Escale
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{{Infobox French commune
|name = L'Escale
|commune status = Commune
|image coat of arms = Blason L Escale.svg
|image = Lac de l’Escale.JPG
|caption = L'Escale Lake as viewed from Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban.
|arrondissement = Digne-les-Bains
|canton = Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban
|INSEE = 04079
|postal code = 04160
|term = 2020–2026
|intercommunality = Provence-Alpes Agglomération
|coordinates = {{coord|44.0861|6.0236|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m = 475
|elevation min m = 408
|elevation max m = 1081
|area km2 = 20.36
|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}
L'Escale ({{IPA|fr|lɛskal}}; {{langx|oc|L'Escala}}) is a commune in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in southeastern France. It is located on the eastern bank of the Durance opposite Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban.
Geography
File:Map commune FR insee code 04049.png
The Bléone forms the commune's southern border, then flows into the Durance, which forms the commune's western border.
=L'Escale Dam=
Work began on the dam in 1959, which was completed in 1963.{{cite web|last1=Janberg|first1=Nicolas Janberg|title=L'Escale Dam (L'Escale/Château-Arnoux-Saint-Auban, 1963) {{!}} Structurae|url=https://structurae.net/structures/l-escale-dam|website=Structurae|publisher=Nicolas Janberg|access-date=2 May 2017|language=en}} With a height of 30ms it retains 15.70 hm³ of water. It is 126 metres long with a road carriageway along which runs the Route Napoleon. There is attached to the dam a power station whose three units produce a total of 170,000 KWs of electricity.{{cite book|last1=Plichon|first1=J. N. |title=Water for Peace: Volume 8 Planning and developing water programs|date=1968|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|location=Washington|page=394|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=50B7BUiVaxoC&q=L%27escale+development+dam&pg=PA394|access-date=2 May 2017}}
Population
{{Historical populations
|source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-04079#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE
|percentages = pagr
|align = none
|1968 |570
|1975 |722
|1982 |948
|1990 |1100
|1999 |1166
|2007 |1245
|2012 |1349
|2017 |1389
}}
See also
References
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Category:Communes of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
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