La Bachellerie
Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
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La Bachellerie (French pronunciation: [la baʃɛlʁi]; Occitan: La Bachalariá) is a commune in the Dordogne department in southwestern France.
La Bachellerie | |
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Chateau of Rastignac | |
 Location of La Bachellerie | |
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| Coordinates: 45°08′48″N 1°09′15″E | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Department | Dordogne |
| Arrondissement | Sarlat-la-Canéda |
| Canton | Haut-Périgord Noir |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Roland Moulinier[1] |
Area 1 | 17.34 km2 (6.70 sq mi) |
| Population (2023)[2] | 891 |
| • Density | 51.4/km2 (133/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| INSEE/Postal code | 24020 /24210 |
| Elevation | 94–281 m (308–922 ft) (avg. 121 m or 397 ft) |
| Website | http://www.labachellerie-perigord.fr/ |
| 1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. | |
Geography
Location
La Bachellerie is a rural commune (town) situated in Périgord Noir in the east of the Dordogne department (county).
The town of La Bachellerie is situated nine kilometres north of Montignac-Lascaux, and twelve kilometres west of Terrasson-Lavilledieu. [3]
Geology and relief
Geology
Situated on the north plate of the Aquitaine basin and bordered at its north-eastern point by the edge of the Central massif, the Dordogne department presents great geological diversity. The land is arranged in depth, in regular strata, evidence of sedimentation on this ancient marine plate. The department could therefore be divided in the geological plan in four tiers, differentiated according to their geological age. La Bachellerie is situated in the second tier from the north-east, a plateau formed of very strong limestone from the Jurassic period, that the sea deposited by carbonate chemical sedimentation, in large, thick banks. [4]
The level strata on the commune's land are made up of Quaternary surface-level formations, of sedimentary rocks dating back to the Cenozoic era and others from the Mesozoic and Paleozoic eras. The oldest formation, noted tfρ3, is made of Thiviers sandstone and Allassac slate, chlorite-bearing rhyodacitic metatuffs and metagreywackes and intercalated sericite schists (middle to upper Cambrian). The most recent formation, noted CFvs, is part of the surface-level formations of the dry valley carbonate colluvium type: silty sand with calcareous debris and sandy clay with debris. The description of these strata is detailed in the file " no 784 - Terrasson " from the geological map 1/50 000 of metropolitan France [5] and its associated notice.[6]
Relief and landscape
The Dordogne department appears as an immense plateau sloped from the north-east to the south-west. The altitude of the commune's territory varies from 94m at the far east of the commune, to 281m in an area east of a place called Combalou.
In the framework of the European Landscape Convention, brought into law in France on the 1st of July 2006, reinforced by the law on the 8th of August 2016 for the reclamation of biodiversity, nature and the countryside, the atlas of the landscape of Dordogne was developed under State project jurisdiction, and was published in October 2020 [7]. The landscape of the department are organised into eight landscape units and 14 sub-units. [8]. The commune is part of Central Périgord, a hilly terrain, with horisons limited by numerous relatively dense wooded areas, dotted with meadows and small fields. [9]
Population
| Year | Pop. | ±% p.a. |
|---|---|---|
| 1968 | 733 | — |
| 1975 | 668 | −1.32% |
| 1982 | 711 | +0.90% |
| 1990 | 722 | +0.19% |
| 1999 | 664 | −0.93% |
| 2009 | 890 | +2.97% |
| 2014 | 915 | +0.56% |
| 2020 | 894 | −0.39% |
| Source: INSEE[10] | ||
Notable people
- The French sprinter, journalist and writer Guy Lagorce was born in La Bachellerie in 1937.
- Geographer and historian Thérèse Sclafert was born in La Bachellerie in 1876.
