Baixas (; ca, Baixàs) is a commune in the

Pyrénées-Orientales Pyrénées-Orientales (; ca, Pirineus Orientals ; oc, Pirenèus Orientals ; ), also known as Northern Catalonia, is a department of the region of Occitania, Southern France, adjacent to the northern Spanish frontier and the Mediterranean ...

department in southern

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Geography

Localisation

Baixas is located in the

canton of Le Ribéral The Canton of Le Ribéral is a French canton of Pyrénées-Orientales department, in Occitanie. At the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015, the canton was created including 5 communes from the canton of Saint-Estève, ...

and in the

arrondissement of Perpignan An arrondissement (, , ) is any of various administrative divisions of France, Belgium, Haiti, certain other Francophone countries, as well as the Netherlands. Europe France The 101 French departments are divided into 342 ''arrondissements'' ...

Government and politics

Mayors

Baixas - Signature du maire Vaquer en 1815

Population

Notable people

Andrzej Szpilman Andrzej Szpilman (born March 28, 1956, Warsaw, Poland) is a Polish dentist, composer, music producer, publisher, and son of the pianist and composer Władysław Szpilman. Biography Szpilman started his music education in 1962 under Prof. S. Ka ...

(1956-), Polish composer living partly in Baixas.

References

External links

Official site
Communes of Pyrénées-Orientales {{PyrénéesOrientales-geo-stub