Coustouges

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Country France Department Pyrénées-Orientales Population (1999) 134 Local time Tuesday 4:21 PM		Region Occitanie Intercommunality Haut Vallespir Area 16.86 km² Arrondissement Céret

Canton Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste Weather 11°C, Wind N at 21 km/h, 61% Humidity

Coustouges (Catalan: Costoja) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. Inhabitants are called Coustougiens (male) or Coustougiennes (female).

Map of Coustouges, France

Coustouges is located in the canton of Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste and in the arrondissement of Céret.

Coustouges is the second most southerly commune of mainland France, after Lamanère. The village is situated at an altitude of 832 m.

Coustouges was previously recorded with the name Costogia in 936, Custajas or Costogia, and finally Coustouges (end of the 19th century).

Coustouges was a dependency of the Abbey of Arles-sur-Tech from 988 until the French Revolution.

Francesc Sabaté Llopart (1915-1960), anarchist, anti-Francoist maquisard,spent several years in Coustouges

François Pinault, French entrepreneur, bought a house there in September 2004.

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