Cugand

Cugand
Commune
A replica of the Lourdes Grotto
Coat of arms
Location of Cugand
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Coordinates: 47°03′47″N 1°15′12″W
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Department	Vendée
Arrondissement	La Roche-sur-Yon
Canton	Mortagne-sur-Sèvre
Intercommunality	CA Terres de Montaigu
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Cécile Barreau[1]
Area ^1	13.47 km^2 (5.20 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	3,685
• Density	270/km^2 (710/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	85076 /85610
Elevation	13–71 m (43–233 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Cugand (French pronunciation: [kyɡɑ̃]) is a commune in the Vendée department in the Pays de la Loire region in western France.

Before the creation of the departments with the French Republic, under the French Kingdom, the parish of Cugand was part of "Marches Bretagne-Poitou" (joint possession) and of Brittany on the religious level (Roman Catholic Diocese of Nantes).

It is part of the urban unit of Clisson.^[3]

The commune of Cugand will merge with the nearby commune of La Bernardière in 2025 to form the commune of Cugand-La Bernardière.

Geography

Cugand is located along the Sèvre Nantaise, 28 km south-east of Nantes and 29 km south-west of Cholet.

Its neighboring communes are:

• In Vendée
  • La Bernardière
  • La Bruffière
• In Loire-Atlantique :
  • Clisson
  • Gétigné
  • Saint-Hilaire-de-Clisson
  • Boussay

Climate

In 2020, Météo-France has published a typology of the climates of Metropolitan France in which Cugand is exposed to an Oceanic climate and located in the "Bretagne Orientale et Méridionale, Pays Nantais, Vendée" climatic region where the amount of rainfall is low in summer and the insolation is good.^[4]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	2,199	—
1975	2,425	+1.41%
1982	2,525	+0.58%
1990	2,627	+0.50%
1999	2,776	+0.61%
2010	3,269	+1.50%
2015	3,448	+1.07%
2021	3,685	+1.11%
Source: INSEE[5]

Local life

Sport

• Sportive Union Bernardière Cugand : football division
• Basketball Association Cugand Bernardière : basketball division
• St Michel Handball : handball division
• "Les raquettes Cugandaises" : tennis division
• Athlétisme Mingot Association : athletics division
• TTAL Cugand : table tennis division

Health

• Health Center Les Caducées

Schools

• Private elementary school St Michel / Jeanne d'Arc
• Public elementary school Jean Moulin

Culture

• Cugandan library
• World dance and music festival

Events

• "Festival de Cugand", world dance and music, folk bands of the all world, during 4 days in August (20,000 spectators in 2005 for the 7th festival edition)

See also

• Communes of the Vendée department

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 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. Commune de Cugand (85076), INSEE
4. archive.wikiwix.com https://archive.wikiwix.com/cache/index2.php?url=http://pluiesextremes.meteo.fr/france-metropole/Un-peu-de-geographie.html#federation=archive.wikiwix.com&tab=url. Retrieved 2024-08-09. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
5. [1], INSEE