Almenêches | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Almenèches (Orne).svg |
Arrondissement: | Alençon |
Canton: | Sées |
Insee: | 61002 |
Postal Code: | 61570 |
Mayor: | Paul Vinet[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Coordinates: | 48.6983°N 0.1108°W |
Elevation M: | 171 |
Elevation Min M: | 158 |
Elevation Max M: | 247 |
Area Km2: | 20.27 |
Almenêches (in French pronounced as /almənɛːʃ/) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.[2]
The commune of is made up of the following villages and hamlets, Saint-Hippolyte, Almenêches, Fligny, La Gare, Le Mesnil, Les Champs Bouchers, Le Friche, Surônes and Les Essarts.[3]
The Commune is one of 30 communes that make up the Natura 2000 protected area of Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge.[4] The site is 21,541 hectares in size and consists of a well-preserved wooded landscape that hosts three protected beetles, the European stag beetle, the great capricorn beetle and the Hermit Beetle.[5]
Almenêches along with another 70 communes is also part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents.[6]
Almenêches has a total of 15 water courses running through it, three rivers The Orne, la Dieuge and Le Don.The other twelve watercourses are all streams;
Almenêches church a 16th century Church that was part of Almenêches Abbey and listed as a Monument historique in 1948.[7]
The inhabitants are known as Almenéchois in French.[8]