Everything about Landes Department totally explained
Landes (
Occitan:
Lanas) is a
département in southern
France.
History
Landes is one of the original 83
départements that were created during the
French Revolution on
March 4,
1790. It was created from parts of the
provinces of
Guyenne and
Gascony.
The Nobel Prize winning novelist
François Mauriac set his novels in the Landes.
Geography
Landes is part of the current
région of
Aquitaine and is surrounded by the
départements of
Gironde,
Lot-et-Garonne,
Gers, and
Pyrénées-Atlantiques, as well as the
Atlantic Ocean on the west. With an area stretching over more than 9000 km², Landes is, after Gironde, the second largest department of the metropolitan French territory.
It is well known for the
Côte d'Argent beach which is Europe's longest, and attracts many
surfers to
Mimizan and
Hossegor each year.
Economics
In terms of
agriculture, Landes is known for its large
pine forests which are the raw material for a
timber and
resin industries in the region. The forests were planted in the early
nineteenth century to prevent erosion of the region's sandy soil by the sea.
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