Cases-de-Pène

Commune in Occitania, France

Coat of arms

Location of Cases-de-Pène

(2020–2026) Théophile Martinez^[1]Area

13.38 km² (5.17 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

969 • Density72/km² (190/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

66041 /66600

Elevation36–362 m (118–1,188 ft)
(avg. 46 m or 151 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Cases-de-Pène (French pronunciation: [kaz də pɛn] ^ⓘ; Catalan: Cases de Pena) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Geography

Localisation

Cases-de-Pène is located in the canton of La Vallée de l'Agly and in the arrondissement of Perpignan.

Politics and administration

Mayors

Mayor	Term start	Term end

Michèle Jodar	?	2001
Jeannine Rolland	2001	2008
Théophile Martinez	2008

Population and society

Demography

Graphs are unavailable due to technical issues. There is more info on Phabricator and on MediaWiki.org.

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	483	—
1975	334	−5.13%
1982	387	+2.13%
1990	406	+0.60%
1999	430	+0.64%
2007	685	+5.99%
2012	834	+4.01%
2017	926	+2.11%
Source: INSEE^[3]

Education

The town of Cases-de-Pène has a kindergarten and elementary school, with about 112 children.^[4]

Following a conflict between the mayor and the teacher in 1908, as she refused to resign, the mayor had a brickwall built in front of the school's entrance to force her to leave.^[5]

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
^ Ministère de l'Éducation nationale, École primaire publique de Cases-de-Pène
^ Cárdenas, Fabricio (2014). 66 petites histoires du Pays Catalan [66 Little Stories of Catalan Country] (in French). Perpignan: Ultima Necat. ISBN 978-2-36771-006-8. OCLC 893847466.