Captieux

Captieux
Coat of arms
Captieux
Location within Aquitaine region Captieux
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Gironde
Arrondissement	Langon
Canton	Captieux
Intercommunality	Captieux-Grignols
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Georges Bernard
Area1	119.33 km2 (46.07 sq mi)
Population (2008)2	1,385
• Density	12/km2 (30/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	33095 / 33840
Elevation	69–136 m (226–446 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

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 (0.62 mi) to the east of the village.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	1,358	—
1968	1,646	+21.2%
1975	1,669	+1.4%
1982	1,742	+4.4%
1990	1,707	−2.0%
1999	1,503	−12.0%
2008	1,385	−7.9%

See also

• Communes of the Gironde department
• Parc naturel régional des Landes de Gascogne

References

• INSEE