Slats
See also: Slats (homonymy)
Lattes is a common French, located in the department of the Herault and the area Languedoc-Roussillon. In Occitan, its name is Latas .
The inhabitants are the Lattois .
Geography
Slats is located at the south of the Préfecture Montpellier in a plain cut into two by the Lez, a coastal Fleuve. Hills of the North-West in the North-East announce the relief of the interior of the department.
The territory of the commune is partially easily flooded, in the event of raw of Lez. Dams protect the parts of the commune close to the Lez) and the Mosson, but are not solid enough: a report/ratio of the General inspection of the environment announce it and evaluate the risk to three hundreds died in Slat-Center and certain localities like Marestelles, while considering installations insufficient.
On left bank of Lez most of the inhabitants and of the activities of the commune is. The districts of Slat-Center and Boirargues are separated by some farms, of the uncommon fields and the retail parks of importance on the axes of two roads going of Carnon to Montpellier.
In the south of Slat-Center, the pond of Méjean is a protected natural reserve where the Oiseau X can be observed. A house of the nature located at the entry makes it possible to discover this space.
On Right Bank of Lez (left bank of the Mosson), are the town of Maurin, district founded at the beginning by repatriated farmers of Algérie and inhabitants of Montpellier in the Années 1960, and two districts isolated from not very dense habitat: Céreirède and Marestelles. The remainder of the territory constitutes agricultural fields or dry grasses; majority of the Vine S having been torn off. In the North-East, in extreme cases with Saint-Jean-with-Védas, the variation (hamlet) of Jasse de Maurin borders wood of Maurin from which it is separated by way the SNCF. In the wood of Maurin the natural culminating point of the commune to 26 meters of altitude is.
It on Right Bank that two awkward equipment of the agglomeration of Montpellier is, currently is managed by the Communauté of agglomeration: the Purification plant of Céreirède and discharge of Thôt close to the pond of Arnel. The discharge of Thôt is a regularly criticized place because, with the wire of the decades, it became the culminating point of the commune. Its permanent closure is made difficult by the absence again not of entreprosage of waste nonwhich can be recycled, no commune not wishing to accommodate one of them.
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Three urban units: Slat-center, Maurin, Boirargues.
- Pond of Méjean.
History
In antiquity, there exists an indigenous site with Lattara in connection with the Étrusque S, the Greek S then the Romans.The Middle Ages, the village of Slats plays the part of river port of Montpellier on the Lez river. The port périclite and the inhabitants desert their village because of the Moustique S.
In the Years 1960, a group of repatriates after the War of Algeria and Montpelliérains buys most of the field of Maurin and gets along with the town hall of Slats to develop horticultural activities in the wine plain. The field itself accommodates the Société of improvement of land and rural establishment (SAFER). The Agricultural credit of the South installs there its head office beside an artisanal zone and village of Maurin where settle an association of owners montpelliérains eager to settle there.
Slats benefits from the development of the agglomeration of Montpellier. It reaches 15 000 inhabitants at the end of the years 1990. In 2004, one can estimate it at 17 500. However, the near total of the recent allotments of Slat-Center are built in the major bed of Lez, itself locked up in deep dams. The village of Maurin was threatened by two ruptures of dam on the Mosson during the exceptional Inondation S of 2002 and 2003 caused by Cevennes storms. If the Lez, resurgence located at approximately 30 km in the north of the commune, did not flood the plain lattoise these years, nevertheless the difficulty of the floods arises, as in many communes with the foot of the the Cevennes.
Administration
Slats is one of the common founders of the District of Montpellier, it belongs to the Communauté of agglomeration Montpellier Agglomération.
- Michel Vaillat was also general adviser of the canton of Slats until in 1988, regional adviser and temporary of the deputy Willy Diméglio. It was withdrawn from the political life in 2001 for personal reasons.
- Since 2004, Cyril Meunier (without label, of tendency ecologist) is also general adviser of the canton of Slats.
Demography
Economy
- Head office of the Agricultural credit of the South (Maurin).
- the hypermarket builds close to Boirargues attracts the inhabitants of common the neighborhoods, and encouraged the installation of many trade on the zones close to Slats and Mauguio. The hypermarket, of the Montlaur group in the beginning, was yielded to the group Carrefour.
The creation of several zones of artisanal and commercial activities took place during the mandates of mayor of Michel Vaillat, between 1977 and 2001.
Sport
The commune accommodates a team of female Basket-ball, taking part in the female Ligue of tennis shoe: the Slats Montpellier Agglomeration Tennis shoe, known in the past like the Tennis shoe Slats Maurin Montpellier. Resulting from the section basketball of the Rural household of Maurin, the club involves and plays its matches in the room of the sports of Slat-Center since the years 1990.
Places and monuments
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the archaeological museum Henri Prades, where are held every year of the exposures in relation to the harbor site Greek of Lattara. The fields of excavations are near the Musée and opened with the visits at the beautiful season.
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On the two roads leading to the seaside resorts of Palavas-the-Floods and Carnon, the commune accommodates several discotheques.
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the port of pleasure is located in the middle of the new district of ARIANE Port. Close from there, the farmhouse of Encivade is the framework of a festival of Théâtre at the end of spring and the summer.
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In the south of the town of Slats, the Natural reserve of Méjean (and its house of nature) accommodate the walkers on a course making it possible to observe the Oiseau X migrating. Cigogne S live there permanently.
Personalities related to the commune
- Henri Prades (1920-1989), teacher and archeologist amateur, achieves the first archaeological research site of Lattara discovered in 1963.
See too
- Common of Herault
- Canton of Slats
External bonds
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Official site of the town of Slats.
- Site of the archaeological research team of Slats.
Sources of the article
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Slats on the site of the national geographical Institute
- Slats on the site of INSEE
- Slats on the site of Quid
- Localization of Slats on a chart of France and communes bordering
- Plane on Slats on Mapquest
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