Santerre (region)

The Santerre is a historic landscape in Picardy in northern France. The name is derived from the Latin sana terra. The scenery was in 1916 the scene of heavy losses Battle of the Somme.

Location

The Santerre, which covers an area of ​​3,000 km ² with 242 municipalities with some 106,000 inhabitants, located just east of Amiens and Saint- Quentin between the rivers Avre, Luce and Somme in the Somme today. In the east it is bounded by the landscape Vermandois. The main part of Santerre is a chalk plateau.

Nature

The up to the early Middle Ages, heavily forested landscape forms a monotonous, but fertile plateau in which the prevailing of grain and sugar beet. The "good earth " has a thickness of 7 - to 10 cm. The area is predominantly managed by large farms.

Economy

Outstanding processing of agricultural products ( Bonduelle ), the sugar and glucose production ( Roye, Eppeville, Nesle ), made ​​by the good transport links ( two highways; TGV Nord planned Canal Seine-Nord Europe) are to be promoted.