Ambès

Ambès
Port
Coat of arms
Ambès
Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region  Ambès
Coordinates: 45°00′44″N 0°32′22″W / 45.0122°N 0.5394°WCoordinates: 45°00′44″N 0°32′22″W / 45.0122°N 0.5394°W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Gironde
Arrondissement	Bordeaux
Canton	Lormont
Intercommunality	Bordeaux
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Maurice Pierre
Area^1	28.85 km^2 (11.14 sq mi)
Population (2008)^2	2,941
• Density	100/km^2 (260/sq mi)
Time zone	CET (UTC+1)
• Summer (DST)	CEST (UTC+2)
INSEE/Postal code	33004 / 33810
Elevation	0–8 m (0–26 ft) (avg. 4 m or 13 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. ^2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Ambès (French pronunciation: ​[ɑ̃bɛs]; Occitan: Ambès) is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France.

It is located at the point, the Bec d'Ambès (Occ. bèc is cognate with Old English bæc for beck^[1]), where the rivers Garonne and Dordogne meet to form the Gironde estuary.

Population

Historical population
Year	Pop.	±%
1962	2,046	—
1968	2,243	+9.6%
1975	2,545	+13.5%
1982	2,715	+6.7%
1990	2,567	−5.5%
1999	2,824	+10.0%
2008	2,941	+4.1%

See also

• Communes of the Gironde department

Gallery

An Avro Lancaster of No. 514 Squadron RAF over the target during a Bomber Command attack on oil storage tanks at Bec d'Ambes in the Garonne estuary, 4 August 1944.

References

• INSEE

1. J. Verneilh-Puyraseau, Histoire politique et statistique de l'Aquitaine, ou des pays compris entre la Loire et les Pyrénées, l'Océan et les Cévennes, Tome I, p. 130