Corrèze

The Correze ( [ kɔʀɛ ː z], Occitan Corresa ) is a French department of atomic number 19, it is located in the Limousin region in the center of the country and named after the Corrèze River.

Geography

The Correze is bordered to the northwest by the department of Haute- Vienne, in the north at the Creuse, in the northeast on the Puy-de -Dôme, in the southeast of the département of Cantal, in the south of the department of Lot and to the west by the department Dordogne.

The department is in the northwest of the Massif Central. The north-east of the department is part of the Plateau de Millevaches with Mont Bessou as the highest point of the Limousin. In Millevaches Plateau rises even the eponymous Corrèze, which flows through the department in a southwesterly direction and opens in the capital of southwestern Brive- la -Gaillarde as a left tributary of the Vézère. The most important river is the Dordogne, which cuts through the department in the southeast and previously forming part of the eastern boundary of the department of Puy -de- Dôme and Cantal.

Coat of arms

Description: The coat of arms is quartered.

• Square one running in gold two red lions
• Field two is red -gold geschacht
• Field three golden red in four oblique right bar
• Field in four gold three (2.1 ) rotbewehrte and also gezungte blue lion

Symbolism: Lion = Aquitaine

Cities

The most densely populated municipalities of the department of Corrèze are:

Administrative divisions

The Correze is divided into three arrondissements, 37 cantons and 286 communes: