Vivès

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Vivès

Vivers
Commune
A general view of Vivès
A general view of Vivès
Coat of arms of Vivès
Coat of arms
Location of Vivès
Vivès is located in France
Vivès
Vivès
Coordinates: 42°31′46″N 2°45′52″E / 42.5294°N 2.7644°E / 42.5294; 2.7644Coordinates: 42°31′46″N 2°45′52″E / 42.5294°N 2.7644°E / 42.5294; 2.7644
CountryFrance
RegionOccitanie
DepartmentPyrénées-Orientales
ArrondissementCéret
CantonVallespir-Albères
Intercommunality
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Jacques Arnaudiès[1]
Area
1
11.07 km2 (4.27 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2018)[2]
177
 • Density16/km2 (41/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
66233 /66490
Elevation114–323 m (374–1,060 ft)
(avg. 228 m or 748 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Vivès (French pronunciation: [vivɛs] (About this soundlisten); Catalan: Vivers) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography[]

Vivès is located in the canton of Vallespir-Albères and in the arrondissement of Céret.

Map of Vivès and its surrounding communes

Population and society[]

Demography[]

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 73—    
1975 58−3.23%
1982 60+0.49%
1990 75+2.83%
1999 128+6.12%
2007 163+3.07%
2012 172+1.08%
2017 176+0.46%
Source: INSEE[3]

Education[]

The school of Vivès had about 20 children in 1947 and only 8 in 1966, the year it was closed.[4] Since then, the nearest school is in Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts.

Health[]

The village of Vivès seems to have benefited, at least until the beginning of the twentieth century, from a local family of healers, renowned through the whole department of Pyrénées-Orientales.[5]

There are no doctors nor any pharmacy in Vivès nowadays, the nearest being in Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts.[6] · [7] The nearest clinic is in Céret[8] and the nearest public hospital is in Perpignan.[9]

See also[]

References[]

  1. ^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Populations légales 2018". INSEE. 28 December 2020.
  3. ^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  4. ^ De Vivers à Vivès : du 2ème au 3ème millénaire, mémoires d'un village. Vivès: Mairie de Vivès. 1999.
  5. ^ Fabricio Cardenas (18 November 2014). "Des guérisseurs à Vivès en 1882". Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales (in French). Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  6. ^ Pages Jaunes, Pharmacies near Vivès
  7. ^ Pages Jaunes, Doctors near Vivès
  8. ^ Pages Jaunes, Clinics near Vivès
  9. ^ Pages Jaunes, Hospitals near Vivès


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