Coustouges

Coustouges Costoja
Commune
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Coordinates: 42°22′07″N 2°39′02″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Céret
Canton	Le Canigou
Intercommunality	Haut Vallespir
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Michel Anrigo[1]
Area ^1	16.86 km^2 (6.51 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	90
• Density	5.3/km^2 (14/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	66061 /66260
Elevation	411–1,120 m (1,348–3,675 ft) (avg. 827 m or 2,713 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Coustouges (French pronunciation: [kustuʒ] ^ⓘ; Catalan: Costoja) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Inhabitants are called Coustougiens (male) or Coustougiennes (female).

Geography

Localisation

Coustouges is located in the canton of Le Canigou and in the arrondissement of Céret.

Coustouges is the second most southerly commune of mainland France, after Lamanère. The village is situated at an altitude of 832 m.

Map of Coustouges and its surrounding communes

Toponymy

Coustouges was previously recorded with the name Costogia in 936, Custajas or Costogia, and finally Coustouges (end of the 19th century).

History

Coustouges was a dependency of the Abbey of Arles-sur-Tech from 988 until the French Revolution.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	207	—
1975	171	−2.69%
1982	163	−0.68%
1990	119	−3.86%
1999	134	+1.33%
2007	116	−1.79%
2012	108	−1.42%
2017	98	−1.92%
2018	93	−5.10%
Source: INSEE[3]

Notable people

• Francesc Sabaté Llopart (1915-1960), anarchist, anti-Francoist maquisard, spent several years in Coustouges
• François Pinault, French entrepreneur, bought a house there in September 2004.

Images

• 
  Church of Notre-Dame de l’Aubépine
• 
  Tomb of an old family
• 
  View of the church from the square
• 
  Typical street name plaque in Coustouges

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales 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. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

External links

• Official Coustouges website