Arrondissement of Le Puy-en-Velay
The Arrondissement Le Puy -en -Velay is an administrative district in the Haute- Loire in the Auvergne region of France.
History
On 4 March 1790, established with the founding of the Haute -Loire is also a " district Le Puy ", which coincided essentially with the present arrondissement. The district was transferred to the establishment of the Arrondissements on 17 February 1800, the new Arrondissement Le Puy.
From September 10 1926 to June 1, 1942 included the area between the time-resolved arrondissements Yssingeaux for Arrondissement Le Puy -en -Velay.
See also History of Haute -Loire.
Geography
The district is bordered to the north by the district Ambert in the Puy -de- Dôme, in the north- east by the district Yssingeaux, in the southeast of the arrondissement of Tournon -sur -Rhône and Largentière in the department of Ardèche (Rhône- Alpes), on the southwest by the district Mende in Lozère (Languedoc -Roussillon ) and to the west by the district Brioude.
Management
The district is subdivided into 16 cantons:
- Allègre
- Cayres
- Craponne- sur- Arzon
- Fay- sur -Lignon
- Loudes
- Le Mona animal -sur- Gazeille
- Pradelles
- Le Puy -en -Velay -Est
- Le Puy -en -Velay North
- Le Puy -en -Velay -Ouest
- Saint- Julien- Chapteuie
- Saint- Paulien
- Solignac -sur -Loire
- Vorey
See also: List of cantons in the Haute- Loire
Communities
The largest municipalities are the arrondissement ( > 5,000 inhabitants in 1999 ):
- Le Puy -en -Velay ( 20,490 )
Ambert | Aurillac | Brioude | Clermont- Ferrand | Issoire | Mauriac | Montlucon | Moulins | Le Puy -en -Velay | Riom | Saint -Flour | Thiers | Vichy | Yssingeaux
- Arrondissement in the Auvergne
- Haute-Loire