Vingrau

Commune in Occitania, France

Coat of arms

Location of Vingrau

(2020–2026) Philippe Camps^[1]Area

32.12 km² (12.40 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

549 • Density17/km² (44/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

66231 /66600

Elevation119–575 m (390–1,886 ft)
(avg. 322 m or 1,056 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Vingrau (French pronunciation: [vɛ̃ɡʁo] ^ⓘ; Catalan: Vingrau) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Vingrau is located in the canton of La Vallée de l'Agly and in the arrondissement of Perpignan.

History

The townhall of Vingrau was destroyed by a fire in 1935, with all the municipal archives, and causing the death of a local roadman.^[3]

Population

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Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	563	—
1975	490	−1.96%
1982	475	−0.44%
1990	426	−1.35%
1999	469	+1.07%
2007	565	+2.36%
2012	644	+2.65%
2017	606	−1.21%
Source: INSEE^[4]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Incendie de la mairie de Vingrau en 1935, 6 March 2014
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE