Les Authieux-du-Puits | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Arrondissement: | Mortagne-au-Perche |
Canton: | Rai |
Insee: | 61017 |
Postal Code: | 61240 |
Mayor: | Jean-Marie Robin[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Coordinates: | 48.7131°N 0.3303°W |
Elevation M: | 240 |
Elevation Min M: | 214 |
Elevation Max M: | 302 |
Area Km2: | 4.43 |
Les Authieux-du-Puits (in French pronounced as /le.z‿otjø dy pɥi/) is a commune in the Orne department in northwestern France.
The Commune is one of 30 communes that make up the Natura 2000 protected area of Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge.[2] 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.[3]
Les Authieux-du-Puits along with another 70 communes is also part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents.[4]