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Geography

 

                LIMOUSIN

The Limousin is an administrative region of Francegrouping departments :

- of  Corrèze (19 )  237 900 h
- of  Creuse (23)  131 300 h
- of  Haute Vienne (87) 353 700 h

County seat: Dismiss. 
The Prefecture of region is situated to Dismiss. 
The surface is 16 942 km². 
Population of 722 900 inhabitants.


 TO KNOW

The thickest French industrial investment in 1993 concerns the Aussedat-Rey enterprise. 
He permits him to double his manufacture of dough to paper. 

Ester is a leading technopole. 
She is to Dismiss. 
Her united of the well-known societies as Legrand or Ax Gérin, 
and of the superior schools of trade and engineers. 
A section is specialized in the domotique.


GEOGRAPHY

The administrative limits of the region trace themselves enough faithfully on the West part of the central Massif. 
It is an organized zone of trays of granite to floors. 
Of is in West, they form the West part of the Central Massif. It is the central heights, called it «Mountain». 

The highest part in the department of the Hollow, remain a domain of average mountain. 
All places are lower to 1 000 meters of altitude. 
One finds Moors under reforestation that encourage the extensive raising. 
The fall of the populationd continuous to rage. 
Regions of the west and the Southwest also know a demographic unbalance. 
However the very favorable conditions to the agricultural activity permit some more important farming densities. 

Raising is reserved to the production of meat mainly. 
Cities as Guéret, Dismiss, Tulle or Uzerches are built within deep valleys as the Corrèze, the Hollow, the Vézère or the Vienna.

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