place

Communauté de communes Ponthieu-Marquenterre

Commune communities in FranceIntercommunalities of Somme (department)Somme (department) geography stubs
Gemeindeverband Ponthieu Marquenterre 2019
Gemeindeverband Ponthieu Marquenterre 2019

The Communauté de communes Ponthieu-Marquenterre is a communauté de communes in the Somme département and in the Hauts-de-France région of France. It was formed on 1 January 2017 by the merger of the former Communauté de communes Authie-Maye, the Communauté de communes du Canton de Nouvion and the Communauté de communes du Haut Clocher. It consists of 71 communes, and its seat is in Rue. Its area is 783.7 km2, and its population was 32,952 in 2019.

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article Communauté de communes Ponthieu-Marquenterre (License: CC BY-SA 3.0, Authors, Images).

Communauté de communes Ponthieu-Marquenterre
Route du Crotoy, Abbeville

Geographical coordinates (GPS) Address Nearby Places
placeShow on map

Wikipedia: Communauté de communes Ponthieu-MarquenterreContinue reading on Wikipedia

Geographical coordinates (GPS)

Latitude Longitude
N 50.266666666667 ° E 1.6666666666667 °
placeShow on map

Address

Route du Crotoy 16
80120 Abbeville
Hauts-de-France, France
mapOpen on Google Maps

Gemeindeverband Ponthieu Marquenterre 2019
Gemeindeverband Ponthieu Marquenterre 2019
Share experience

Nearby Places

Baie de Somme
Baie de Somme

Baie de Somme (Bay of the Somme or Somme Bay; Picard: Béie d'Sonme) is a large estuary in the Hauts-de-France region of France. The bay drains six rivers into the English Channel, principally the River Somme, and covers a total area of 72 km2 (28 sq mi). The bay is noted for its ornithological richness, as well as being a major tourist attraction.When the tide is out, the Baie is characterized by wide, flat areas of marsh and sand, from which the delicacy of glasswort (locally:salicornes) are collected. Small ponds, dug into the marshes and filled with fake plastic ducks, are used to attract migratory birds for hunting. As the tide rises the bay fills, during which time numerous working, leisure and tourist boats cross between the surrounding villages.The largest towns on the bay are Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, Le Crotoy, Cayeux-sur-Mer and, a few miles inland of the bay, Noyelles-sur-Mer. Other smaller towns such as Le Hourdel, Le Tréport, or Mers-les-Bains are sparsely located around the region. These towns are popular tourist destinations, and are connected together by the preserved steam railway line, the Chemin de Fer de la Baie de Somme. Several of the towns together form the Communauté d'agglomération de la Baie de Somme. The Bay of Somme is the habitat of multiple fauna and flora species, the most famous being probably the Grey seal and the Harbor seal, locally referred as "phoque veau-marin". Its population can be estimated at around 650 to 700 individuals living in the bay, whereas the Grey seal has a smaller population of around 350 individuals.