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Baixas (French pronunciation: [baʃas] (listen); Catalan: Baixàs) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Baixas
Commune
An alley in Baixas
Coat of arms
Location of Baixas
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Coordinates: 42°45′03″N 2°48′36″E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Perpignan
Canton	Le Ribéral
Intercommunality	Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Gilles Foxonet
Area 1	18.91 km2 (7.30 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2019)[1]	2,612
• Density	140/km2 (360/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	66014 /66390
Elevation	51–312 m (167–1,024 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Localisation

Baixas is located in the canton of Le Ribéral and in the arrondissement of Perpignan.

Government and politics

Mayors

Mayor	Term start	Term end
Vaquer[2]	?	June 1815
Honoré Tarrieux[2]	June 1815	?
Désiré Bobo	1896	1904
Henri Thomas	1904	1919
Jules Bonzoms	1919	1925
Jacques Frigola	1925	1944
Robert Cantier	1944	1947
Georges Bobo	1947	1959
Servais Bobo	1959	1971
Robert Frigola	1971	1995
Roger Torreilles	1995	2001
Gilles Foxonet	2001

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	2,057	—
1975	1,969	−0.62%
1982	2,104	+0.95%
1990	2,027	−0.46%
1999	2,217	+1.00%
2007	2,433	+1.17%
2012	2,587	+1.24%
2017	2,573	−0.11%
Source: INSEE[3]

Notable people

• Andrzej Szpilman (1956-), Polish composer living partly in Baixas.

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department

References

External links

• Official site

На других языках

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[de] Baixas

Baixas (katalanisch Baixàs) ist ein südfranzösischer Ort und eine Gemeinde mit 2.612 Einwohnern (Stand: 1. Januar 2019) im Département Pyrénées-Orientales in der Region Okzitanien in der historischen Provinz de Roussillon.

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