Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly

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Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly
Commune
The town hall in Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly
The town hall in Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly
Location of Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly
Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly is located in France
Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly
Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly
Coordinates: 46°10′04″N 0°41′12″W / 46.1678°N 0.6867°W / 46.1678; -0.6867Coordinates: 46°10′04″N 0°41′12″W / 46.1678°N 0.6867°W / 46.1678; -0.6867
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentCharente-Maritime
ArrondissementRochefort
CantonSurgères
Government
 • Mayor (2008–2014) Nadette Durand
Area
1
19.81 km2 (7.65 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2018)[1]
533
 • Density27/km2 (70/sq mi)
Demonym(s)Pierritains
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
17382 /17700
Elevation11–69 m (36–226 ft)
(avg. 25 m or 82 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Saint-Pierre-d'Amilly is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France.

Geography[]

The village of Charente-Maritime is at the extreme northeast of the Département, 3 km (2 mi) from the Département of Deux-Sèvres (79) and the village of Mauzé-sur-le-Mignon, and 10 km (6 mi) from Surgères, the seat of the canton.

Places and monuments[]

  • Church of St Paul, built in roughcast limestone in 1871, to replace two older churches that had been ruined by the wars that ravaged the region.[2]
  • The commune also has a war memorial, near the Church of St Paul.

Population[]

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1962412—    
1968414+0.5%
1975336−18.8%
1982390+16.1%
1990409+4.9%
1999386−5.6%
2008440+14.0%

Economy[]

The commune is home to the Magernaud site of the National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA), specialising in the improvement of aviculture (bird farming), heliciculture (snail farming) and apiculture (beekeeping). This site also houses an outpost of GEVES, the Groupe d'étude et de contrôle des variétés et des semences ("Group for the study and control of varieties and seeds"), a seedbank and plant selection institution which works on the homologation of new vegetable varieties.[3] It collaborates also with French: ARVALIS - Institut du végétal ("ARVALIS - Institute of Vegetation").

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
  2. ^ Le Patrimoine des Communes de la Charente-Maritime [The legacy of the communes of Charente-Maritime] (in French). II. FLOHIC Éditions. p. 1091.
  3. ^ GEVES (in French)


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