Captieux

Captieux
Commune
The church in Captieux
Coat of arms
Location of Captieux
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Coordinates: 44°17′34″N 0°15′32″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Gironde
Arrondissement	Langon
Canton	Le Sud-Gironde
Intercommunality	Bazadais
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Christine Luquedey[1]
Area ^1	119.33 km^2 (46.07 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	1,336
• Density	11/km^2 (29/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	33095 /33840
Elevation	69–136 m (226–446 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Captieux (French pronunciation: [kapsjø]; Occitan: Capsiuts) is a commune of Southwestern France, located in the Gironde department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2015: Aquitaine).

It lies near the border with the Landes and the Lot-et-Garonne departments.

The commune is in the east of the Parc naturel régional des Landes de Gascogne.

Between 1950 and 1967, the U.S. Army's 23,000-acre 571st Ordnance Ammunition Command (Captieux Ordnance Depot) was situated southwest of the village.[3][4]

The Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit, a route which has been modified to allow its use by the oversize road convoys conveying body sections and wings of the Airbus A380 airliner, bypasses Captieux using a specially created private track about 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) to the east of the village.[5]

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±%
1962	1,358	—
1968	1,646	+21.2%
1975	1,669	+1.4%
1982	1,742	+4.4%
1990	1,707	−2.0%
1999	1,503	−12.0%
2008	1,385	−7.9%

See also

• Communes of the Gironde department
• Parc naturel régional des Landes de Gascogne

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
2. "Populations légales 2021" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
3. "USAREUR Units - Engineer Depots". Usarmygermany.com. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
4. "Military Construction Appropriations for 1962: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session". 1961.
5. "Itinéraire à grand gabarit : Transport des pièces de l'Airbus A380 entre Langon et Toulouse : Aménagements réalisés à Captieux" (in French). IGG.FR. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2010.