Bages, Pyrénées-Orientales

Bages
The town hall in Bages
Coat of arms
Bages
Location within Languedoc-Roussillon region  Bages
Coordinates: 42°36′24″N 2°53′51″E
Country	France
Region	Languedoc-Roussillon-Midi-Pyrénées
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Perpignan
Canton	Elne
Intercommunality	Communauté de communes des Albères et de la Côte Vermeille
Government
• Mayor (2014–2020)	Serge Soubielle
Area1	11.95 km2 (4.61 sq mi)
Population (2013)2	3,987
• Density	330/km2 (860/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	66011 / 66670
Elevation	14–91 m (46–299 ft) (avg. 17 m or 56 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.

Bages (Catalan: Bages de Rosselló) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Localisation

Bages is located in the canton of Elne and in the arrondissement of Perpignan.

Map of Bages and its surrounding communes

Government and politics

Mayors

Mayor	Term start	Term end
Jean-Pierre Ricard	?	1984
Jean-Claude Madrénas	1984	1995
Serge Soubielle	1995

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	1,755	—
1968	1,900	+8.3%
1975	2,145	+12.9%
1982	2,711	+26.4%
1990	3,317	+22.4%
1999	3,328	+0.3%
2006	3,723	+11.9%
2009	3,894	+4.6%

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department

References

• INSEE