CHARENTE INFORMATION
CHARENTE Geography
The department of Charente is part of the current region of Poitou-Charentes. It is surrounded by the departments of Vienne, Charente-Maritime, and Deux-Sèvres, in the region of Limousin by the department of Haute-Vienne, in the region of Aquitaine by the department of Dordogne. It contains part of the geographical regions of Poitou and Limousin.
The Charente between Angoulême and the sea, the river Boutonne. The Charente is a coastal river 361 km long, navigable between Angoulême and the sea. It can be divided into two section : the canalised part between Angoulême and Saint-Savinien, regulated by 21 locks, and the free flowing section between Angoulême and the sea. Inland waterways craft can go as far downstream as Rochefort. With the exception of the lock at Saint-Savinien, all the locks are self operated. The Charente is rarely closed to navigation, even during the driest periods but the available draft upstream from Jarnac can be limited in mid summer.
The Poitou-Charentes is formed of four departments. It is nicknamed region of them «four cantons». indeed, no one has economic supremacy. It includes four chiefs places having an equivalent population.
To the North, it is a region of plains and groves that dedicates himself to raising. To the South, hills little elevated permit the flight of vineyard charentais. It is in Champagne, around Brandy, that the vineyard is localized. Brandy is a very well-known brandy.
The region, outside of the extremity Northwest of the Limousin of the Confolentais, spreads on the Angoumois that is a flat enough chalky country. The Poitou-Charentes is bound to agriculture traditionally.
The industry uses 30% of salaried employee.
Coastal region par excellence, she shows the detail of her archipelago of islands of Ré, Oléron, Aix and Fort Boyard. A zone between earth and sea is the Swamp Poitevin. To the faith natural park, zone appropriate in intensive value and reclamation. It is an accessible region. Him «doorstep of the Poitou» permits contact with the basin of the Garonne. It is the possibility to cross the North in the South, between the ocean and the Central Massif.
The axis Rochelle-Saints exercise a strong attraction. The traditional farming impression gives up the step to a structuring oriented toward cities. Around the technological pole of the Futuroscope, of Châtellerault to Poitiers, constructs himself an urban whole of 200 000 inhabitants.
The industry is essentially located to Angoulême. She is often bound to sectors of raising and the vineyard.
CHARENTE River
The Charente river in western France, about 225 miles (360 km) long, rising near Rochechouart in the Limousin uplands (Haute-Vienne département), on the margin of the Massif Central, and flowing generally westward to the Bay of Biscay. Taking a northwesterly course to Civray (Vienne département), it makes a wide loop and meanders south to Angoulême, capital of Charente département, and then flows gently westward through Cognac and Saintes (Charente-Maritime département). The river receives its chief tributary, the Boutonne, from the plain of Poitou to the north, before making a southern loop round Rochefort, 5 miles (8 km) from its mouth, east of ... The valley itself is easy to travel as the main road and train lines to Limoges run this way. North and south, Poitiers, Périgueux (for the Dordogne) and Bordeaux are also easily reached by train. Otherwise, for cross-country journeys, you're heavily reliant on your own transport.
CHARENTE Economy
The regional economy remains interdependent of the Mutual. The technopole of Niort permits her a diversification. It is she «green Venice». She possesses a path domotic and a nurserie of enterprises. The T.G.V. carries the La Rochelle to 3 hours and Poitiers to 1 hour 30 of Paris. GEC-Alsthom constructs cars of the T.G.V. to Aytré.
To La Rochelle, is installed the Center of survey and electric vehicle assessment.
To Civeaux, one finds laboratories of research and a nuclear power station.
CHARENTE Wine
See the France's Vineyards Map and also the Cognac's liqueur.
CHARENTE Administration
Department number : 16
Region : Poitou-Charentes
Prefecture : Angoulême
Subprefectures : Cognac, Confolens
Arrondissements : 3
Cantons : 35
Communes : 404
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