{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2023}} {{short description|Commune in Occitanie, France}} {{Expand German|date=April 2010|Leucate}}
{{Infobox French commune |name = Leucate |commune status = Commune |image coat of arms = Blason ville fr Leucate (Aude).svg |arrondissement = Narbonne |image = Leucate Plage (Aude), view from Etang.jpg |caption = A general view of Leucate |canton = Les Corbières Méditerranée |INSEE = 11202 |postal code = 11370 |mayor = Michel Py<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|website=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=2 December 2020|language=fr}}</ref> |term = 2020–2026 |intercommunality = Grand Narbonne |coordinates = {{coord|42.9105|3.0294|format=dms|display=inline,title}} |elevation m = 25 |elevation min m = 0 |elevation max m = 70 |area km2 = 23.55 |population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}} |population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}} |population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}} }}
'''Leucate''' ({{IPA|fr|løkat|-|LL-Q150 (fra)-Lepticed7-Leucate.wav}}; {{langx|oc|Leucata}}) is a commune in the Aude department in southern France. It lies between the Mediterranean Sea and the lagoon Étang de Leucate.
==Geography== thumb|left|Beach Leucate naturist village Leucate is on the Mediterranean coast of France. It is part of the eastern Corbières Massif, which are called the Corbières maritimes. It is around {{convert|30|km|mi|abbr=on}} south of Narbonne, and around {{convert|30|km|mi|abbr=on}} north of Perpignan.
On a clear day, the Phare du Cap Leucate offers a view over the French Mediterranean Sea from the Spanish border to the south to the Camargue to the east.
==Population== {{Historical populations |source = INSEE<ref name=pophist>[https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/8643952?geo=COM-11202#tableau-POPREF_G1 Population municipale entre 1968 et 2023], INSEE</ref> |percentages = pagr |align = none |1968 |1233 |1975 |1244 |1982 |1968 |1990 |2177 |1999 |2732 |2007 |3655 |2012 |4148 |2017 |4428 |2023 |4562 }}
==Urban morphology== The town stretches over five tourist attractions, from north to south: * La Franqui * Leucate village * Leucate beach (Leucate plage) * The naturist village (Village naturiste) on the island of Correggio * Port-Leucate.
==Personalities== * Henry de Monfreid, adventurer and author * Françoise de Cezelli (1558–1615) knight and French female war hero * André Héléna (1919–1972) author * Christophe Neff geographer
==See also== * Fitou AOC * Corbières AOC * Communes of the Aude department * Siege of Leucate (1637)
==Sources== * Nöel Hautemanière and Jacques Hiron: ''Leucate : plein cadre; livre de photographies''. Toreilles, 2004, {{ISBN|2-9516053-3-1}}. * Christophe Neff: ''Kulturlandschaftswandel, Fremdenverkehr und Biodiversität auf der Halbinsel Leucate (Dept. Aude / Frankreich).'' In: ''Fremdenverkehrsgebiete des Mittelmeerraumes im Umbruch. Beiträge der Tagung des Arbeitskreises "Geographische Mittelmeerländer-Forschung“ vom 11.-13. Oktober 1996 in Regensburg.'' Regensburger Geographische Schriften, Heft 27, S. 99-135, Regensburg, 1998, {{ISBN|3-88246-193-4}} * Christophe Neff : ''Observation géographiques et floristiques sur la presqu'île de Leucate''. In: Bul. Soc. Et. Sc. Nat. Nîmes et Gard, T. 62, 1999, 23-34. DOI: 10.5445/IR/1000121552, download by KITopen [https://publikationen.bibliothek.kit.edu/1000121552] * Christophe Neff and Peter Frankenberg : ''Reflexions géobotaniques sur les plantes échappees de jardins: L´example de Euphorbia dendroides et d´autres espèces ornementales dans la région de Leucate et dans les Corbières maritimes (Aude, France)''. In : Bul. Soc. Et. Sc. Nat. Nîmes et Gard, T. 63, 2001, 7- 10. * Christophe Neff : ''Les Corbières maritimes – forment-elles un étage de végétation méditerranéenne thermophile masqué par la pression humaine ?'' In: Eric Fouache (Edit.): ''The Mediterranean World Environment and History. IAG Working Group on Geo-archeology, Symposium Proceedings. Environmental Dynamics and History in Mediterranean Areas, Paris, Université de Paris – Sorbonne 24 – 26 avril 2002''. Paris, 2003, 191 – 202, (Elsevier France, {{ISBN|2-84299-452-3}}).
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== {{Commons category|Leucate}} * {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20031214054705/http://www.leucate.net/index.asp Leucate.net]}} {{in lang|fr}}
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