Captieux
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Captieux is a commune
in the Gironde
department in Aquitaine
in southwestern France
.
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, there was an American army base and a large ammunition storage near the village.
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 (0.621372736649807 mi) to the east of the village.
Communes of France
The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...
in the Gironde
Gironde
For the Revolutionary party, see Girondists.Gironde is a common name for the Gironde estuary, where the mouths of the Garonne and Dordogne rivers merge, and for a department in the Aquitaine region situated in southwest France.-History:...
department in Aquitaine
Aquitaine
Aquitaine , archaic Guyenne/Guienne , is one of the 27 regions of France, in the south-western part of metropolitan France, along the Atlantic Ocean and the Pyrenees mountain range on the border with Spain. It comprises the 5 departments of Dordogne, :Lot et Garonne, :Pyrénées-Atlantiques, Landes...
in southwestern France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
.
It lies near the border with the Landes and the Lot-et-Garonne
Lot-et-Garonne
Lot-et-Garonne is a department in the southwest of France named after the Lot and Garonne rivers.-History:Lot-et-Garonne is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on March 4, 1790...
departments.
The commune is in the east of the Parc naturel régional des Landes de Gascogne.
Between 1950 and 1967, there was an American army base and a large ammunition storage near the village.
The Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit
Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit
The Itinéraire à Grand Gabarit is a water and road route that has been created in order to allow the transport of the outsize structural sections of the Airbus A380 airliner from their point of manufacture to Toulouse for final assembly. The route was largely created by modifying existing waterways...
, 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
Airbus A380
The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, wide-body, four-engine jet airliner manufactured by the European corporation Airbus, a subsidiary of EADS. It is the largest passenger airliner in the world. Due to its size, many airports had to modify and improve facilities to accommodate it...
, bypasses Captieux using a specially created private track about 1 kilometre (0.621372736649807 mi) to the east of the village.
Population
See also
- Communes of the Gironde department
- Parc naturel régional des Landes de GascogneParc naturel régional des Landes de GascogneLandes de Gascogne Regional Natural Park is a protected area of pine forest, wetland and oceanic coastline located in the Aquitaine region of southwestern France.-History:...