# Thauron

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{{short description|Commune in Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France}}
{{Infobox French commune
|name                   = Thauron
|commune status         = [Commune](/source/Communes_of_France)
|arrondissement         = Guéret
|canton                 = Ahun
|INSEE                  = 23253
|postal code            = 23250
|mayor                  = Monique Caillaud<ref>{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=13 September 2022|language=fr}}</ref>
|term                   = 2020&ndash;2026
|intercommunality       = [CC Creuse Sud Ouest](/source/Communaut%C3%A9_de_communes_Creuse_Sud_Ouest)
|coordinates            = {{coord|46.0008|1.8186|format=dms|display=inline,title}}
|elevation m            = 532
|elevation min m        = 390
|elevation max m        = 632
|area km2               = 22.34
|population             = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}
|population date        = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}
|population footnotes   = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}
}}

'''Thauron''' ({{IPA|fr|toʁɔ̃}}; {{langx|oc|Tauron}}) is a [commune](/source/Communes_of_France) in the [Creuse](/source/Creuse) [department](/source/Departments_of_France) in the [Nouvelle-Aquitaine](/source/Nouvelle-Aquitaine) [region](/source/Regions_of_France) in central [France](/source/France).

==Geography==
An area of [forestry](/source/forestry) and [farming](/source/farming) comprising the village and several hamlets situated in the [Taurion](/source/Taurion) river valley some {{convert|13|mi|km}} south of [Guéret](/source/Gu%C3%A9ret), at the junction of the D10, D60 and the D43 roads.

==Population==
{{Historical populations
|align=left
|1962|162
|1968|225
|1975|197
|1982|169
|1990|190
|1999|189
|2008|185
}}
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==Sights==
* The church, dating from the fifteenth century.
* The ruins of the thirteenth-century church of the abbey du Palais.
* The chapel de Bonneville
* The chapel in the park du Palais
* A monument to members of the [French Resistance](/source/French_Resistance) at the crossroads of the hamlet of Combeauvert.

==See also==
*[Communes of the Creuse department](/source/Communes_of_the_Creuse_department)

==References==
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{{Creuse communes}}

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Category:Communes of Creuse

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