Fontaine-le-Port

Fontaine-le-Port
Fontaine-le-Port
Location within Île-de-France region Fontaine-le-Port
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Île-de-France
Department	Seine-et-Marne
Arrondissement	Melun
Canton	Le Châtelet-en-Brie
Intercommunality	Pays de Seine
Government
• Mayor (2008–2014)	Raymond Prunet
Area1	7.89 km2 (3.05 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	952
• Density	120/km2 (310/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	77188 / 77590
Elevation	41–97 m (135–318 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.

Fontaine-le-Port is a commune in the Seine-et-Marne department in the Île-de-France region in north-central France.

Demographics

Fontaine-le-Port has a population of approximately 800. Inhabitants of Fontaine-le-Port are called Portifontains. There is a train station with trains direct to Gare de Lyon (Paris) during peak times and with a connection in Melun on off-peak times. Fontaine Le Port has a primary school as well as a bakery and borders the Seine with a view of the Fontainebleau Forest. The former Barbeau Abbey, dissolved in the French Revolution, was sited here.

See also

• Communes of the Seine-et-Marne department

References

• INSEE

External links

• 1999 Land Use, from IAURIF (Institute for Urban Planning and Development of the Paris-Île-de-France région) (English)
• French Ministry of Culture list for Fontaine-le-Port (French)
• Map of Fontaine-le-Port on Michelin (English)