Lacq

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Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Lacq
Commune
The town hall of Lacq
Location of Lacq
(2020–2026)		Didier Rey^[1]
Area ¹	17.05 km² (6.58 sq mi)
Population (2021)^[2]	1,035
• Density	61/km² (160/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64300 /64170
Elevation	88–190 m (289–623 ft) (avg. 95 m or 312 ft)
¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Lacq (French pronunciation: [lak]; Occitan: Lac) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in southwestern France.^[3] On 1 January 2024, the former commune of Urdès was merged into Lacq.^[4]

It lies just northwest of the prefecture (department capital) Pau.

Economy

In modern times the local economy has been based on the industrial use of subsurface petroleum reserves, and since 1951 on the extraction and development of a very large natural gas reservoir underneath the city. Processing of the large quantities of hydrogen sulfide in the gas have made Lacq a center of sulfur production.

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.
^ INSEE commune file
^ Arrêté du 7 novembre 2023 portant création de la commune nouvelle de Lacq, retrieved 2024-01-04