La Rochette, Charente

La Rochette
La Rochette

Coordinates: 45°48′07″N 0°18′53″E / 45.8019°N 0.3147°E / 45.8019; 0.3147Coordinates: 45°48′07″N 0°18′53″E / 45.8019°N 0.3147°E / 45.8019; 0.3147
Country France
Region Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department Charente
Arrondissement Angoulême
Canton La Rochefoucauld
Intercommunality Bandiat-Tardoire
Government
  Mayor (20082014) Laurent Banicic
Area1 10.99 km2 (4.24 sq mi)
Population (2008)2 551
  Density 50/km2 (130/sq mi)
Time zone CET (UTC+1)
  Summer (DST) CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code 16282 / 16110
Elevation 66–115 m (217–377 ft)
(avg. 91 m or 299 ft)

1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

La Rochette is a commune in the Charente department in southwestern France.

In 2016, an ancient hunter-gatherer that was excavated at La Rochette was found to carry the M mtDNA haplogroup. The Late Pleistocene specimen was dated to 28,000 years ago.[1]

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±%
1800767    
1806748−2.5%
1821742−0.8%
1831864+16.4%
1841801−7.3%
1846805+0.5%
1851851+5.7%
1856765−10.1%
1861760−0.7%
1866793+4.3%
1872654−17.5%
1876636−2.8%
1881631−0.8%
1886638+1.1%
1891595−6.7%
1896609+2.4%
1901575−5.6%
1906529−8.0%
1911549+3.8%
1921501−8.7%
1926480−4.2%
1931440−8.3%
1936500+13.6%
1946391−21.8%
1954393+0.5%
1962398+1.3%
1968401+0.8%
1975422+5.2%
1982436+3.3%
1990445+2.1%
1999442−0.7%
2008551+24.7%

See also

References

  1. Cosimo Posth, Gabriel Renaud, Alissa Mittnik, Dorothée G. Drucker, Hélène Rougier, Christophe Cupillard, Frédérique Valentin, Corinne Thevenet, Anja Furtwängler, Christoph Wißing, Michael Francken, Maria Malina, Michael Bolus, Martina Lari, Elena Gigli, Giulia Capecchi, Isabelle Crevecoeur, Cédric Beauval, Damien Flas, Mietje Germonpré, Johannes van der Plicht, Richard Cottiaux, Bernard Gély, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Kurt Wehrberger, Dan Grigorescu, Jiří Svoboda, Patrick Semal, David Caramelli, Hervé Bocherens, Katerina Harvati, Nicholas J. Conard, Wolfgang Haak, Adam Powell (March 21, 2016). "Pleistocene Mitochondrial Genomes Suggest a Single Major Dispersal of Non-Africans and a Late Glacial Population Turnover in Europe". Current Biology. 26: 1–7. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2016.01.037. Retrieved 6 June 2016.
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