Combrit

Combrit Kombrid
Commune
L'Abri du Marin, in Combrit
Coat of arms
Combrit Combrit
Coordinates: 47°53′16″N 4°09′32″W
Country	France
Region	Brittany
Department	Finistère
Arrondissement	Quimper
Canton	Plonéour-Lanvern
Intercommunality	Pays Bigouden Sud
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Christian Loussouarn
Area 1	24.13 km2 (9.32 sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	29037 /29120
Elevation	0–62 m (0–203 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Combrit (Breton: Kombrid) is a commune in the Finistère department of Brittany in north-western France.

Artists such as Lucien Simon and Alfred Marzin painted many pictures of the area.

Population

Inhabitants of Combrit are called in French Combritois.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 1,145 —     1800 1,392 +2.83% 1806 1,340 −0.63% 1821 1,516 +0.83% 1831 1,617 +0.65% 1836 1,640 +0.28% 1841 1,623 −0.21% 1846 1,696 +0.88% 1851 1,616 −0.96% 1856 1,650 +0.42% 1861 1,778 +1.51% 1866 1,836 +0.64% 1872 1,870 +0.31% 1876 2,108 +3.04% 1881 2,354 +2.23% 1886 2,390 +0.30% 1891 2,421 +0.26% 1896 2,553 +1.07%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 2,630 +0.60% 1906 2,641 +0.08% 1911 2,760 +0.89% 1921 2,730 −0.11% 1926 2,628 −0.76% 1931 2,574 −0.41% 1936 2,442 −1.05% 1946 2,479 +0.15% 1954 2,292 −0.98% 1962 2,262 −0.16% 1968 2,233 −0.21% 1975 2,302 +0.44% 1982 2,495 +1.16% 1990 2,673 +0.87% 1999 3,165 +1.89% 2007 3,440 +1.05% 2012 3,731 +1.64% 2017 4,092 +1.86%
Source: EHESS and INSEE (1968-2017)

Breton language

The municipality launched a linguistic plan concerning the Breton language through Ya d'ar brezhoneg on 29 May 2008.

Sights

• Parc botanique de Cornouaille

See also

• Communes of the Finistère department

External links

• Official website (in French)
• Base Mérimée: Search for heritage in the commune, Ministère français de la Culture. (in French)
• Mayors of Finistère Association (in French)