Hautecourt-Romanèche

Hautecourt-Romanèche
Commune
Town hall
Location of Hautecourt-Romanèche
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Coordinates: 46°09′35″N 5°25′03″E
Country	France
Region	Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Department	Ain
Arrondissement	Bourg-en-Bresse
Canton	Saint-Étienne-du-Bois
Intercommunality	CA Bassin de Bourg-en-Bresse
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Marc Rochet[1]
Area ^1	21.60 km^2 (8.34 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	754
• Density	35/km^2 (90/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	01184 /01250
Elevation	260–548 m (853–1,798 ft) (avg. 324 m or 1,063 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Hautecourt-Romanèche (French pronunciation: [otkuʁ ʁɔmanɛʃ]) is a commune in the Ain department in eastern France. It was created in 1973 by the merger of two former communes: Hautecourt and Romanèche.[3]

The commune comprises many villages and hamlets including: Challes, Chambod, Hautecourt, Merlot, Perroi, Romaneche, Soiriat and Villette.

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	446	—
1975	456	+0.32%
1982	549	+2.69%
1990	588	+0.86%
1999	676	+1.56%
2009	760	+1.18%
2014	793	+0.85%
2020	756	−0.79%
Source: INSEE[4]

Sights

The commune's biggest tourist attraction is the Island of Chambod which also has a camp site. There is also the Donjon de Buenc which used to be an outpost along the Savoy frontier. The village of Hautecourt is also home to a rare type of cave which is only accessed once every seven years so as not to disturb the many species that are indigenous to it.

Sports

The commune also has a football team who regularly play in Hautecourt in their home colours of purple.

See also

• Communes of the Ain department

References

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Archived from the original on 28 June 2020. Retrieved 6 May 2024.
2. "Populations de référence 2022" (in French). The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 19 December 2024.
3. Modifications aux circonscriptions administratives territoriales (fusion de communes), Journal officiel de la République française n° 0024, 28 January 1973, pp. 1114-1117.
4. Population en historique depuis 1968 Archived 10 December 2023 at the Wayback Machine, INSEE