Err, Pyrénées-Orientales

Err

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Commune
	The church of Saint-Génis and the chapel of the Virgin, in Err
	Location of Err
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	Coordinates: 42°26′28″N 2°02′03″E / 42.4411°N 2.0342°E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Prades
Canton	Les Pyrénées catalanes
Intercommunality	Pyrénées Cerdagne
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Isidore Peyrato
Area 1	25.92 km2 (10.01 sq mi)
Population (2021)	699
• Density	27/km2 (70/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	66067 /66800
Elevation	1,309–2,911 m (4,295–9,551 ft) ; (avg. 1,335 m or 4,380 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Err (French pronunciation: [ɛʁ] ^ⓘ; Catalan: Er, locally [ˈer(t)]) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Toponymy

The onomastics of the town name, first attested as Ezerre in 839 AD amongst many later forms, is ultimately mysterious. Linguists generally agree it dates before the dominance of Celtic languages and Latin in ancient Gaul (a dominant hypothesis being a Basque-related Pre-Indo-European name; also see Old European hydronymy). Compare the etymology of similarly-sounding nearby Ur.

Geography

Err is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades. Err station has rail connections to Villefranche-de-Conflent and Latour-de-Carol.