Bolquère

Commune in Occitania, France

Bolquère Bolquera
Commune
Bolquère seen from Font-Romeu
Location of Bolquère
(2022–2026)		Henri Baudet^[1]
Area ¹	17.61 km² (6.80 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	808
• Density	46/km² (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	66020 /66210
Elevation	1,478–2,099 m (4,849–6,886 ft) (avg. 1,613 m or 5,292 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Bolquère (French pronunciation: [bɔlkɛʁ] ^ⓘ; Catalan: Bolquera) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Localization

Bolquère is located in the canton of Les Pyrénées catalanes and in the arrondissement of Prades.

Transportation

Bolquère-Eyne station is the highest railway station on the SNCF network at an elevation of 1593m [the highest SNCF station is the Gare du Lac at 1914m on the stand-alone Train de L' Artouste line]. It serves the Yellow Train exclusively.

Government and politics

Mayors

Mayor	Term start	Term end

Pierre Patau^[3]	?	June 1815
Jean Inbern^[3]	June 1815	?

Raymond Guinovart	1983	1989

Jean-Pierre Abel	2001	2020
Jackie Coll	2020	incumbent

Population

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Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	249	—
1975	373	+5.94%
1982	503	+4.36%
1990	617	+2.59%
1999	730	+1.89%
2007	798	+1.12%
2012	781	−0.43%
2017	808	+0.68%
Source: INSEE^[4]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 4 May 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ ^a ^b (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Bolquère, le 24 juin 1815, March 10 2014
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE