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**Haute-Loire**
Haute-Loire
	Coat of Arms of Haute-Loire
	Location
Administration
Department number:	43
Region:	Auvergne
Prefecture:	Le Puy-en-Velay
Subprefectures:	Brioude; Yssingeaux
Arrondissements:	3
Cantons:	35
Communes:	260
President of the General Council:	Gérard Roche;
Statistics
Population	Ranked 85th
-1999	209,113
Population density:	42/km2
Land area¹:	4977 km2
	¹ French Land Register data, which exclude estuaries, and lakes, ponds, and glaciers larger than 1 km2.

Haute-Loire (Occitan: Naut Léger) is a department in south-central France named after the Loire River.

[edit] History

Haute-Loire is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790. It was created from parts of the former provinces of Auvergne, Languedoc, and Lyonnais.

[edit] Geography

Haute-Loire is part of the current regions of France of Auvergne and is surrounded by the departments of Loire, Ardèche, Lozère, Cantal, and Puy-de-Dôme.

The department covers the upper reaches of the Loire.

[edit] Demography

The inhabitants of the department are called Altiligériens.

[edit] Notable residents

Claude-Jean Allouez, born in Saint-Didier-en-Velay, Jesuit missionary to North America^[1]

[edit] See also

[edit] References

1. ^ Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Marquis Who's Who. 1967.

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Haute-Loire

(French) Prefecture website
(French) Regional council website
(English) Haute-Loire at the Open Directory Project

(English) Tourist website
(English) The Haut-Allier Website concerned with the western half of the Haute Loire which follows the relatively unknown Allier valley and gorges
(English) (French) Regordane Info Independent portal for the Regordane Way or St Gilles Trail. (The Regordane Way crosses The Haute-Loire, commencing from Le Puy southwards)

Coordinates: 45°00′00″N 4°00′00″E / 45.000°N 4.000°E / 45.000; 4.000

[Marquis_1607-1896-0] Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896. Marquis Who's Who. 1967.

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