Saint-Hippolyte, Pyrénées-Orientales

Saint-Hippolyte (Catalan: Sant Hipòlit de la Salanca) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France.

Saint-Hippolyte Sant Hipòlit de la Salanca
Commune
The church in Saint-Hippolyte
Coat of arms
Location of Saint-Hippolyte
Saint-Hippolyte Saint-Hippolyte
Coordinates: 42°47′06″N 2°58′02″E
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Perpignan
Canton	La Côte Salanquaise
Intercommunality	Perpignan Méditerranée Métropole
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Madeleine Garcia-Vidal
Area ^1	14.65 km^2 (5.66 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[1]	3,052
• Density	210/km^2 (540/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	66176 /66510
Elevation	0–11 m (0–36 ft) (avg. 6 m or 20 ft)
^1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Geography

Saint-Hippolyte is located in the canton of La Côte Salanquaise and in the arrondissement of Perpignan.

Map of Saint-Hippolyte and its surrounding communes

Government and politics

Signature of mayor Étienne Masnou in 1815

Mayors

Mayor	Term start	Term end
Étienne Masnou[2]	?	June 1815
Pierre Gari[2]	June 1815	?
Michel Montagne	2001	2014
Madeleine Garcia-Vidal	2014

Population

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1968	1,033	—
1975	1,044	+0.15%
1982	1,038	−0.08%
1990	1,616	+5.69%
1999	1,849	+1.51%
2007	2,327	+2.92%
2012	2,719	+3.16%
2017	3,052	+2.34%
Source: INSEE[3]

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department

References

1. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
2. (in French) Fabricio Cardenas, Vieux papiers des Pyrénées-Orientales, Saint-Hippolyte, le 31 mai 1815, 25 january 2014
3. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE