Le Barcarès

{{Infobox French commune

|name = Le Barcarès

|native name = {{native name|ca|El Barcarès}}

|commune status = Commune

|image = Canigou murano.jpg

|caption = The Pic du Canigou seen from Port Murano, in Barcarès

|image coat of arms = Escut del Barcarès.svg

|arrondissement = Perpignan

|canton = La Côte Salanquaise

|INSEE = 66017

|postal code = 66420

|mayor = Alain Ferrand{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=6 June 2023|language=fr}}

|term = 2020–2026

|party = LR

|intercommunality = Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole

|coordinates = {{coord|42.7892|3.0364|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|elevation m = 1

|elevation min m = 0

|elevation max m = 4

|area km2 = 11.65

|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}

|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}

|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}

|demonym = barcarésien (fr)
barcaresenc (ca)

}}

Le Barcarès ({{IPA|fr|lə baʁkaʁɛs|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Fabricio Cardenas (Culex)-Le Barcarès.wav}}; {{langx|ca|El Barcarès}} {{IPA|ca|əɫ bərkəˈɾɛs|}}) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France bordering the Mediterranean Sea.

History

During the mid 19th century, Le Barcarès was created as a small fishing village which developed until the mid- 20th century prior to the local economy redirecting towards the tourism industry.{{cite book | last=Heikell | first=Rod | title=Mediterranean France & Corsica pilot | publisher=Imray Laurie Norie & Wilson | publication-place=St Ives, Cambridgeshire | date=1997 | isbn=0-85288-274-2 | oclc=37794583}}

File:Le Barcares fishing village.jpg

At the end of the Spanish Civil War, Le Barcarès was the site of a camp housing Republican escapees from Spain.{{cite book |last1=Thomas |first1=Hugh |title=The Spanish Civil War |date=2012 |publisher=Penguin Books |location=London |isbn=978-0-141-01161-5 |page=855 |edition=50th Anniversary}} Conditions were slightly better than at other camps, as most internees sent there had indicated a willingness to return to Spain.{{cite book |last1=Beevor |first1=Antony |title=The Battle for Spain |date=2006 |publisher=Weidenfeld & Nicolson |location=London |isbn=978-0-7538-2165-7 |page=456}}

Geography

= Localisation =

Le Barcarès is located in the canton of La Côte Salanquaise and in the arrondissement of Perpignan.

It is part of the Northern Catalan comarca of Rosselló.

File:Map commune FR insee code 66017.png

{{Adjacent communities|width=auto

| CENTER=Le Barcarès

| NORTHWEST=Salses-le-Château,
Saint-Hippolyte
(both by a quinquepoint only)

| NORTH=Leucate (Aude)

| NORTHEAST=

| WEST=Saint-Laurent-de-la-Salanque

| EAST=Mediterranean Sea

| SOUTHWEST=

| SOUTH=Torreilles

| SOUTHEAST=

}}

Government and politics

;Mayors

class="wikitable"
Mayor

! Term start

! Term end

Albert Got

| align=center|May 1953

| align=center|March 1983

Yvon Blanc

| align=center|March 1983

| align=center|March 1989

Claude Got

| align=center|March 1989

| align=center|June 1995

Alain Ferrand

| align=center|June 1995

| align=center|March 1999

Joëlle Ferrand

| align=center|May 1999

| align=center|June 2011

Marie Roses

| align=center|June 2011

| align=center|August 2011

Alain Ferrand

| align=center|August 2011

|

Population

{{Historical populations

|source = INSEE[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/4515315?geo=COM-66017#ancre-POP_T1 Population en historique depuis 1968], INSEE

|percentages = pagr

|align = none

|1968 |1197

|1975 |1347

|1982 |2208

|1990 |2422

|1999 |3514

|2007 |4005

|2012 |4080

|2017 |5915

}}

Notable people

  • Georges Candilis (1913-1995), Greek architect and urbanist who participated to the conception of Port-Barcarès.

See also

References

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Category:Communes of Pyrénées-Orientales

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