Monsec

Part of Mareuil en Périgord in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Location of Monsec

45°25′18″N 0°32′02″E / 45.4217°N 0.5339°E / 45.4217; 0.5339CountryFranceRegionNouvelle-AquitaineDepartmentDordogneArrondissementNontronCantonBrantômeCommuneMareuil en PérigordArea

12.45 km² (4.81 sq mi)Population

(2019)^[1]

186 • Density15/km² (39/sq mi)Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET) • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)Postal code

24340

Elevation131–237 m (430–778 ft)
(avg. 148 m or 486 ft)¹ French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Monsec (French pronunciation: [mɔ̃sɛk]; Limousin: Montsec) is a former commune in the Dordogne department in Nouvelle-Aquitaine in southwestern France. On 1 January 2017, it was merged into the new commune Mareuil en Périgord.^[2]

Geography

Monsec is in the Northwest of the Dordogne Department. The town is situated along the river Belle, a tributary of the Lizonne. The town of Monsec is situated on the border of the departmental road 939 which connects Périgueux and Angoulême.

In 2016, the year preceding the creation of the commune of Mareuil en Périgord, Monsec was neighbored by five communes: Champeaux-et-la-Chapelle-Pommier, Saint-Crépin-de-Richemont, Saint-Félix-de-Bourdeilles, Léguillac-de-Cercles, and Vieux-Mareuil.