Vivès

Vivès (Catalan: Vivers) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Vivès

Vivers
Commune
A general view of Vivès
Coat of arms
Location of Vivès
Vivès
Vivès
Coordinates: 42°31′46″N 2°45′52″E
CountryFrance
RegionOccitanie
DepartmentPyrénées-Orientales
ArrondissementCéret
CantonVallespir-Albères
IntercommunalityVallespir
Government
 • Mayor (2014-2020) Jacques Arnaudiès
Area
1
11.07 km2 (4.27 sq mi)
Population
 (2017-01-01)[1]
176
 • Density16/km2 (41/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
66233 /66490
Elevation114–323 m (374–1,060 ft)
(avg. 228 m or 748 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Vivès is located in the canton of Vallespir-Albères and in the arrondissement of Céret.

Map of Vivès and its surrounding communes

Population and society

Demography
Population 1962-2008

Education

The school of Vivès had about 20 children in 1947 and only 8 in 1966, the year it was closed.[2] Since then, the nearest school is in Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts.

Health

The village of Vivès seems to have benefited, at least until the beginning of the twentieth century, from a local family of healers, renowned through the whole department of Pyrénées-Orientales.[3]

There are no doctors nor any pharmacy in Vivès nowadays, the nearest being in Saint-Jean-Pla-de-Corts.[4] · [5] The nearest clinic is in Céret[6] and the nearest public hospital is in Perpignan.[7]

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See also

References
  1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  2. De Vivers à Vivès : du 2ème au 3ème millénaire, mémoires d'un village. Vivès: Mairie de Vivès. 1999.
  3. Fabricio Cardenas (18 November 2014). "Des guérisseurs à Vivès en 1882". Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales (in French). Retrieved 18 June 2016.
  4. Pages Jaunes, Pharmacies near Vivès
  5. Pages Jaunes, Doctors near Vivès
  6. Pages Jaunes, Clinics near Vivès
  7. Pages Jaunes, Hospitals near Vivès


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