Guissény

Guissény (French pronunciation: [ɡiseni]; Breton: Gwiseni) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.

Guissény
Gwiseni
The church in Guissény
The church in Guissény
Coat of arms of Guissény
Location of Guissény
Guissény is located in France
Guissény
Guissény
Guissény is located in Brittany
Guissény
Guissény
Coordinates: 48°38′05″N 4°24′27″W
CountryFrance
RegionBrittany
DepartmentFinistère
ArrondissementBrest
CantonLesneven
IntercommunalityLesneven Côte des Légendes
Government
  Mayor (20202026) Raphaël Rapin[1]
Area
1
25.18 km2 (9.72 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2020)[2]
1,983
  Density79/km2 (200/sq mi)
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
  Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
29077 /29880
Elevation0–77 m (0–253 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Guissény is a coastal town lying in the English Channel, it is part of the "Pays de pagan", limited to the northeast by a marine gulf, the gulf (or cove) of Tressény, into which flows a small coastal river, the Quillimadec, which separates it from Kerlouan, and to the west by the Porz Olier (limited to the east by the tip of Dibennou and to the west by that of Beg ar Skeïz), a small residual marine gulf that was once much larger, most of which has been transformed, due to the construction of a dyke, by man into a polder (La Palud de Curnic, where salt marshes once existed) or a pond (Étang du Curnic) which separates Guissény from Plouguerneau, the town s 'extending westward to include a good part of the beach of Vougo (Vougot), the other part being in Plouguerneau; the coastal dunes reach an altitude of up to 13 meters at a place called “la Sècherie”.

To the west of Curnic, the coastal platform is several hundred meters wide and includes a few emerged rocky islets: Karreg Hir (the Karreg Hir causeway extends northwest to the rocks of Lizenn Du and includes numerous islets emerging at low tide), Golhédoc, Énez Du, Tilloc, Énez Croaz-Hent (the latter now being linked to the mainland by a dyke).

Population

The inhabitants of Guissény are called Guisséniens in French.

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1968 2,104    
1975 1,948−1.09%
1982 1,887−0.45%
1990 1,850−0.25%
1999 1,783−0.41%
2007 1,823+0.28%
2012 2,033+2.20%
2017 2,009−0.24%
Source: INSEE[3]

Breton language

In 2009, 21.55% of primary-school children attended bilingual schools, where Breton language is taught alongside French.[4]

See also

References

  1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020.
  2. "Populations légales 2020". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 29 December 2022.
  3. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
  4. (in French) Ofis ar Brezhoneg: Enseignement bilingue Archived 2008-11-14 at the Wayback Machine


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