Almenêches

Almenêches
Commune
The church in Almenêches
Coat of arms
Location of Almenêches
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Coordinates: 48°41′54″N 0°06′39″E / 48.6983°N 0.1108°E / 48.6983; 0.1108
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Orne
Arrondissement	Alençon
Canton	Sées
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Paul Vinet[1]
Area 1	20.27 km2 (7.83 sq mi)
Population  (2022)[2]	642
• Density	32/km2 (82/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	61002 /61570
Elevation	158–247 m (518–810 ft) (avg. 171 m or 561 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Almenêches (French pronunciation: [almənɛːʃ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.^[3]

The commune of is made up of the following villages and hamlets, Saint-Hippolyte, Almenêches, Fligny, La Gare, Le Mesnil, Les Champs Bouchers, Le Friche, Surônes and Les Essarts.^[4]

The Commune is one of 30 communes that make up the Natura 2000 protected area of Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge.^[5]

Almenêches along with another 70 communes is also part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents.^[6]

Almenêches has a total of 15 water courses running through it, three rivers The Orne, la Dieuge and Le Don.^[7] The other twelve watercourses are all streams;

Almenêches church a 16th century Church that was part of Almenêches Abbey and listed as a Monument historique in 1948.^[8]

The inhabitants are known as Almenéchois in French.^[10]

• Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (1816 -1889) an inventor who submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869, was born here.^[11]

The arms of Almenêches are blazoned : Azure, on a bend argent between an anchor and a mullet Or, 3 ermine spots (palewise) sable.

• Communes of the Orne department

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