Arrondissement of Castellane


The arrondissement of Castellane is an arrondissement of France in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. It has 41 communes. Its population is 11,403, and its area is.

Composition

The communes of the arrondissement of Castellane, and their INSEE codes, are:
  1. Allons
  2. Allos
  3. Angles
  4. Annot
  5. Barrême
  6. Beauvezer
  7. Blieux
  8. Braux
  9. Castellane
  10. Castellet-lès-Sausses
  11. Chaudon-Norante
  12. Clumanc
  13. Colmars
  14. Demandolx
  15. Entrevaux
  16. Le Fugeret
  17. La Garde
  18. Lambruisse
  19. Méailles
  20. Moriez
  21. La Mure-Argens
  22. La Palud-sur-Verdon
  23. Peyroules
  24. La Rochette
  25. Rougon
  26. Saint-André-les-Alpes
  27. Saint-Benoît
  28. Saint-Jacques
  29. Saint-Julien-du-Verdon
  30. Saint-Lions
  31. Saint-Pierre
  32. Sausses
  33. Senez
  34. Soleilhas
  35. Tartonne
  36. Thorame-Basse
  37. Thorame-Haute
  38. Ubraye
  39. Val-de-Chalvagne
  40. Vergons
  41. Villars-Colmars

    History

The arrondissement of Castellane was created in 1800, disbanded in 1926 and restored in 1942. At the January 2017 reorganization of the arrondissements of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, it gained nine communes from the arrondissement of Digne-les-Bains.
As a result of the reorganisation of the cantons of France which came into effect in 2015, the borders of the cantons are no longer related to the borders of the arrondissements. The cantons of the arrondissement of Castellane were, as of January 2015:
  1. Allos-Colmars
  2. Annot
  3. Castellane
  4. Entrevaux
  5. Saint-André-les-Alpes