Écouché-les-Vallées | |
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 The church in Écouché | |
 Location of Écouché-les-Vallées | |
  Écouché-les-Vallées  Écouché-les-Vallées | |
| Coordinates:48°43′05″N0°07′30″W / 48.718°N 0.125°W /48.718; -0.125 | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Normandy |
| Department | Orne |
| Arrondissement | Argentan |
| Canton | Magny-le-Désert |
| Intercommunality | Terres d'Argentan Interco |
| Government | |
| • Mayor(2020–2026) | Alain Lolivier[1] |
Area 1 | 41.23 km2 (15.92 sq mi) |
| Population (2022)[2] | 2,193 |
| • Density | 53.19/km2 (137.8/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 61153 /61150 |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Écouché-les-Vallées (French pronunciation:[ekuʃelevale]) is acommune in thedepartment ofOrne, northwesternFrance. The municipality was established on 1 January 2016 by merger of the former communes ofBatilly,La Courbe,Écouché (the seat),Loucé,Saint-Ouen-sur-Maire andSerans.[3] On 1 January 2018, the former commune ofFontenai-sur-Orne was merged into Écouché-les-Vallées.[4] Its seat, Écouché, is classed as aPetites Cités de Caractère.[5]
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets: La Courbe, Mesnil-Glaise, Le Haut du Château, Batilly, Treize Saints, L'Être Hubert, Saint-Ouen-sur-Maire, Serans, Écouché, Méheudin, Loucé, Noiseville, Le Hamel and Fontenai-sur-Orne.
The parts of the commune that containsBatilly andLa Courbe is part of the area known asSuisse Normande.[6]
Parts of the commune make up the area, thePlaine d'Argentan, which is known for its cereal growing fileds and horse stud farms.[7]
Écouché-les-Vallées along with another 65 communes is part of a 20,593 hectare,Natura 2000 conservation area, called theHaute vallée de l'Orne et affluents.[8]
The Commune has 5 rivers running through it with another 6 streams. The five rivers are theOrne, Maire, Baize,Cance andUdon.[9][10][11] The 6 streams are the Chalau, Commune, Barbottiere, Vloger and Aunais.
Neighbouring communes[12] | |
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| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
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| 1968 | 2,218 | — |
| 1975 | 2,245 | +0.17% |
| 1982 | 2,291 | +0.29% |
| 1990 | 2,298 | +0.04% |
| 1999 | 2,284 | −0.07% |
| 2007 | 2,303 | +0.10% |
| 2012 | 2,218 | −0.75% |
| 2017 | 2,169 | −0.45% |
| Source: INSEE[13] | ||
The Commune has 5 buildings and areas listed as aMonument historique.
The commune has a Railway station in Écouché, that was opened in 1866 and serves part of the Argentan to Granville line.[26]
