The Pyrénées-Orientales department is composed of 226

communes An intentional community is a voluntary residential community which is designed to have a high degree of social cohesion and teamwork from the start. The members of an intentional community typically hold a common social, political, relig ...

. Most of the territory (except for the district of Fenolheda) formed part of the Principality of Catalonia until 1659, and Catalan is still spoken (in addition to French) by a significant minority of the population. The Catalan names of communes are taken from the ''Enciclopèdia catalana'' and are intended for comparison with the official French names: they do not indicate the current or former linguistic status of the commune.

List of intercommunalities

The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):BANATIC
Périmètre des EPCI à fiscalité propre. Accessed 3 July 2020. *

Communauté urbaine Communauté urbaine (French for "urban community") is the second most integrated form of intercommunality in France, after the ''Metropolis'' (french: link=no, métropole). A ''communauté urbaine'' is composed of a city ( commune) and its indep ...

Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole The Communauté urbaine Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole is the '' communauté urbaine'', an intercommunal structure, centred on the city of Perpignan. It is located in the Pyrénées-Orientales department, in the Occitanie region, southern F ...

List of communes

Former communes and names

The following names of communes are no longer in use, either because the commune has been absorbed into another commune or because it has changed name. * Amélie-les-Bains →

Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda Amélie-les-Bains-Palalda (; ca, Els Banys i Palaldà) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Prior to 1942, it was known as Amélie-les-Bains. It is situated in the Tech valley, and combines the old and the ne ...

(1942) * Angoustrine →

Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes (; ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Localisation Angoustrine-Villeneuve-des-Escaldes is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arr ...

(1973) * Anills → Ponteilla (< 1800) * Argelès →

Argelès-sur-Mer Argelès-sur-Mer (, literally ''Argelès on Sea''; ca, Argelers de la Marenda or ; oc, Argelers de Mar), commonly known as Argelès, is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in the administrative region of Occitania, France. It i ...

(1840) * Arles-les-Bains → Amélie-les-Bains (1840) →

(1942) * Ayguatébia → Ayguatébia-Talau (1983) * Aytua →

Escaro Escaro (; ca, Escaró) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Localisation Escaro is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades The arrondissement of Pr ...

(1822) * Bajande →

Estavar Estavar (; ca, Estavar) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Estavar is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades The arrondissement of Prades is an a ...

(1822) * Belloc → Villefranche (< 1800) →

Villefranche-de-Conflent Villefranche-de-Conflent (; ca, Vilafranca de Conflent) is historically a town in the Conflent region of Catalonia, and now a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Villefranche-de-Conflent is located in ...

(1893) * Belpuig → Prunet-et-Belpuig (< 1800) * Bessegarde → L'Écluse (< 1800) → Les Cluses (1984) * Boiça →

Alénya Alénya (; ca, Alenyà) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. The village is surrounded by wine fields. Apricot and peach are also grown here. Geography Localisation Alénya covers an area of , with 434 inh ...

(< 1800) * Cabanes → Saint-Génis (< 1800) → Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines (1968) * Caldegas → Bourg-Madame (1973) * Canet → Canet-en-Roussillon-Saint-Nazaire (1972) → Canet-en-Roussillon (1983) * Canet-en-Roussillon-Saint-Nazaire → Canet-en-Roussillon and Saint-Nazaire (1983) * Caudiès → Caudiès-de-Conflent (1983) * Caudiès → Caudiès-de-Fenouillèdes (1898) * Château-Roussillon → Perpignan (< 1800) *

Comes ''Comes'' ( ), plural ''comites'' ( ), was a Roman title or office, and the origin Latin form of the medieval and modern title "count". Before becoming a word for various types of title or office, the word originally meant "companion", either i ...

→ Eus (1828) * Corneilla → Corneilla-de-Conflent (1933) * Cortals → La Llagonne (1822) * L'Écluse → Les Cluses (1984) * En → Nyer (1822) * Espira → Espira-de-Conflent (1933) * Évol → Olette (1827) * Fetges → Sauto (< 1800) * Flassa →

Jujols Jujols (; ca, Jújols) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Geography Jujols is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. Government and politics Mayors ...

(< 1800) * Fontanils → Arles-sur-Tech (1823) * Garrieux → Salses (< 1800) * Garrius → Salses (< 1800) * Hix → Bourg-Madame (1815) * Les Horts → Serdinya (1822) * Las Illas → Maureillas-las-Illas (1972) * Ille → Ille-sur-Têt (1953) * Laroque → Laroque-des-Albères (1953) * Lavaill → Sorède (1822) * Levilar → Villelongue-dels-Monts (1803) * Llar → Canaveilles (1821) * Marcevol → Arboussols (1822) * Marians → Souanyas (1822) * Maureillas → Maureillas-las-Illas (1972) * Molitg → Molitg-les-Bains (1970) * Montalba → Montalba-d'Amélie (1933) →

(1963) * Montalba → Montalba-le-Château (1933) * Montalba-d'Amélie →

(1963) *

Montesquieu Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (; ; 18 January 168910 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French judge, man of letters, historian, and political philosopher. He is the princi ...

→ Montesquieu-des-Albères (1992) * Nidolère → Tresserre (< 1800) * Nyls → Ponteilla (< 1800) * Odeillo → Odeillo-Via (1900) →

Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via Font-Romeu-Odeillo-Via (; ca, Font-romeu, Odelló i Vià), or simply Odeillo, is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales and Cerdagne near the Spanish border in the south of France. It comprises the villages of Odeillo and Via, as well as Font-Rom ...

(1957) * Odeillo-Via →

(1957) * Opoul → Opoul-Périllos (1972) * Palalda →

(1942) *

Palau Palau,, officially the Republic of Palau and historically ''Belau'', ''Palaos'' or ''Pelew'', is an island country and microstate in the western Pacific. The nation has approximately 340 islands and connects the western chain of the ...

→

Palau-de-Cerdagne Palau-de-Cerdagne ( ca, Palau de Cerdanya) is a commune in the eastern Pyrenees (Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France). The people of the town celebrate the Xicolatada, every year, on the 16th of August. Geography Palau-de-C ...

(1936) * Palol →

Céret Céret (; ) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It is the capital of the historic Catalan comarca of Vallespir. Geography The town lies in the foothills of the Pyrénées mountains, in southern France. ...

(1823) * Passa-Llauro-Tordères → Llauro, Passa and Tordères (1989) * La Pave → Argelès (< 1800) →

(1840) * La Perche → La Cabanasse (< 1800) * Perillos → Opoul-Périllos (1972) * Pézilla → Pézilla-de-Conflent (1933) * Porté → Porté-Puymorens (1954) * Prats → Prats-de-Sournia (1933) * Prats → Prats-Saint-Thomas (< 1800) → Fontpédrouse (1822) * Prats-de-Mollo → Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste (1956) * Prats-Saint-Thomas → Fontpédrouse (1822) * Prunet → Prunet-et-Belpuig (< 1800) *

Ria A ria (; gl, ría) is a coastal inlet formed by the partial submergence of an unglaciated river valley. It is a drowned river valley that remains open to the sea. Definitions Typically rias have a dendritic, treelike outline although they ca ...

→ Ria-Sirach-Urbanya (1973) * Ria-Sirach-Urbanya → Ria-Sirach and Urbanya (1983) * Riunogues → Maureillas-las-Illas (1972) * Ro → Saillagouse (1822) * Rohet →

Llo Llo (; ) is a Communes of France, commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales Departments of France, department in southern France. Geography Llo is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. Population ...

(< 1800) * Sahorle → Vinça (< 1800) * Saillagouse-Llo →

and Saillagouse (1984) * Saint-Génis → Saint-Génis-des-Fontaines (1968) * Saint-Martin → Maureillas (1823) → Maureillas-las-Illas (1972) * Saint-Paul → Saint-Paul-de-Fenouillet (1953) * Saint-Thomas → Prats-Saint-Thomas (< 1800) → Fontpédrouse (1822) * Salses → Salses-le-Château (1986) *

Selva Selva () is a coastal comarque (county) in Catalonia, Spain, located between the mountain range known as the Serralada Transversal or Puigsacalm and the Costa Brava (part of the Mediterranean coast). Unusually, it is divided between the provinc ...

→ Las Illas (1823) → Maureillas-las-Illas (1972) * Serrabonne → Boule-d'Amont (1822) *

Sirach The Book of Sirach () or Ecclesiasticus (; abbreviated Ecclus.) is a Jewish work, originally in Hebrew, of ethical teachings, from approximately 200 to 175 BC, written by the Judahite scribe Ben Sira of Jerusalem, on the inspiration of his fa ...

→

(1822) → Ria-Sirach-Urbanya (1973) → Ria-Sirach (1983) * Talau → Ayguatébia-Talau (1983) * Taxo-d'Amont → Saint-André (< 1800) * Taxo-d'Avall → Argelès (< 1800) →

(1840) * Thuès-Dellar → Thuès-Entre-Valls (1822) * Touren → Sahorre (1822) * Vedrinyans → Saillagouse (1822) * Vernet → Vernet-les-Bains (1953) * Via → Odeillo (1822)→ Odeillo-Via (1900) →

(1957) * Villefranche →

(1893) * Villeneuve-des-Escaldes →

(1973) * Villerach →

Clara Clara may refer to: Organizations * CLARA, Latin American academic computer network organization * Clara.Net, a European ISP * Consolidated Land and Rail Australia, a property development consortium People * Clara (given name), a feminine gi ...

(1822) * Villeroge → Coustouges (< 1800)

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Communes of the Pyrenees-Orientales department Pyrenees-Orientales