Saint-Clément-des-Baleines

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Saint-Clément-des-Baleines
Commune
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Coordinates: 46°13′44″N 1°32′18″W / 46.2289°N 1.5383°W / 46.2289; -1.5383Coordinates: 46°13′44″N 1°32′18″W / 46.2289°N 1.5383°W / 46.2289; -1.5383
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Charente-Maritime
Arrondissement	La Rochelle
Canton	Île de Ré
Intercommunality	Île de Ré
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Gilles Duval
Area 1	6.80 km2 (2.63 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[1]	663
• Density	98/km2 (250/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	17318 /17590
Elevation	0–18 m (0–59 ft) (avg. 4 m or 13 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Clément-des-Baleines (French pronunciation: ​[sɛ̃ klemɑ̃ de balɛn]) is a commune on Île de Ré, a coastal island in the western French department of Charente-Maritime.

Population[]

Geography[]

This commune has no harbor. Five villages are aggregated in: Le Gillieux, Le Chabot, La Tricherie, Le Griveau, Le Godinand. It was named according to mass whale strandings happened on the sandbank at the northwestern side of the island during their migrations.^[2] The is located on the western tip of Île de Ré.

See also[]

• Communes of the Charente-Maritime department

References[]

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