Moutiers-au-Perche explained

Moutiers-au-Perche
Commune Status:	Commune
Arrondissement:	Mortagne-au-Perche
Canton:	Bretoncelles
Insee:	61300
Postal Code:	61110
Mayor:	Pascal Bouvier^[1]
Term:	2020 - 2026
Intercommunality:	CC Cœur du Perche
Coordinates:	48.4781°N 0.8478°W
Elevation M:	159
Elevation Min M:	143
Elevation Max M:	237
Area Km2:	33.61

Moutiers-au-Perche (in French pronounced as /mutje o pɛʁʃ/) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.

Geography

Tourouvre au Perche along with the communes of Feings, Longny les Villages, Le Mage, Tourouvre au Perche and Charencey is part of the Forets, etangs et tourbieres du Haut-Perche a Natura 2000 conservation site.^[2] The site measures 3670 hectares and is home to the following fourteen protected Flora and Fauna;^[3]

1. 1. Bullhead Brook lamprey
2. white-clawed crayfish
3. Jersey tiger
4. Marsh fritillary
5. European stag beetle
6. Northern crested newt
7. Lesser horseshoe bat
8. Greater horseshoe bat
9. Western barbastelle
10. Geoffroy's bat
11. Bechstein's bat
12. Greater mouse-eared bat
13. floating water-plantain.

Points of interest

National heritage sites

• Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Harou an eleventh century church, that was registered as a Monument historique in 1941.^[4]

See also

• Communes of the Orne department

Notes and References

1. Web site: Répertoire national des élus: les maires. data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022. fr.
2. Web site: INPN - FSD Natura 2000 - FR2500106 - Forets, etangs et tourbieres du Haut-Perche - Description.
3. Web site: Forêts, étangs et tourbières du Haut-Perche. Ministère de la Transition écologique.
4. Web site: Eglise à Moutiers-au-Perche - PA00110873. monumentum.fr.