Captieux

Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Coat of arms

Location of Captieux

(2020–2026) Christine Luquedey^[1]Area

119.33 km² (46.07 sq mi)Population

(2021)^[2]

1,336 • Density11/km² (29/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)INSEE/Postal code

33095 /33840

Elevation69–136 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 the 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.^[3]^[4]

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.^[5]

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%

References

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
^ "USAREUR Units - Engineer Depots". Usarmygermany.com. Retrieved 22 April 2022.
^ "Military Construction Appropriations for 1962: Hearings Before the Subcommittee of the Committee on Appropriations, House of Representatives, Eighty-seventh Congress, First Session". 1961.
^ "Itinéraire à grand gabarit : Transport des pièces de l'Airbus A380 entre Langon et Toulouse : Aménagements réalisés à Captieux" (in French). IGG.FR. Archived from the original on 20 July 2011. Retrieved 16 August 2010.