Captieux
Captieux | |
|---|---|
The church in Captieux | |
|
Coat of arms | |
Location of Captieux | |
Captieux Captieux | |
| Coordinates: 44°17′34″N 0°15′32″W / 44.2928°N 0.2589°W | |
| Country | France |
| Region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine |
| Department | Gironde |
| Arrondissement | Langon |
| Canton | Le Sud-Gironde |
| Intercommunality | Bazadais |
| Government | |
| • Mayor (2020–2026) | Christine Luquedey |
Area 1 | 119.33 km2 (46.07 sq mi) |
| Population (2023) | 1,429 |
| • Density | 11.98/km2 (31.02/sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+01:00 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+02:00 (CEST) |
| 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. | |
Captieux (French pronunciation: [kapsjø]; Occitan: Capsiuts) is a commune of Southwestern France, located in the Gironde department, Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2015: Aquitaine).
It lies near the border with the Landes and Lot-et-Garonne departments.
The commune is in the east of the Parc naturel régional des Landes de Gascogne.
Between 1950 and 1967, the U.S. Army's 23,000-acre 571st Ordnance Ammunition Command (Captieux Ordnance Depot) was situated southwest of 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.