Descartes
Descartes is a large village and commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. It is approximately 29 kilometres east of Richelieu and about 48 kilometres east of Loudun, on the banks of the river Creuse, on the border with the Vienne department, which is also the regional border between Centre-Val de Loire and Nouvelle-Aquitaine.
Photo: Jean-Charles GUILLO, Public domain.- Type: Village with 3,290 residents
- Description: commune in Indre-et-Loire, France
- Also known as: “37115”, “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”, “Haye (La) (devenue Descartes)”, “La Haye en Touraine”, and “La Haye-Descartes”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Notre-Dame de La Haye Church and Église Saint-Georges de La Haye-Descartes.
Notre-Dame de La Haye Church
Church
Église Saint-Georges de La Haye-Descartes
Church
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buxeuil and Abilly.
Buxeuil
Village
Abilly
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Descartes
- Categories: commune of France and locality
- Location: Arrondissement of Loches, Indre-et-Loire, Centre-Val de Loire, France, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
46.9741° or 46° 58′ 27″ north
Longitude
0.6995° or 0° 41′ 58″ east
Population
3,290
Elevation
55 metres (180 feet)
Open location code
8FR2XMFX+JR
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Descartes” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Descartes”
- Aragonese: “Descartes”
- Armenian: “Դեկարտ”
- Arpitan: “Descartes”
- Asturian: “Descartes”
- Azerbaijani: “Dekart”
- Bambara: “Descartes”
- Basque: “Descartes”
- Bavarian: “Descartes”
- Belarusian: “Дэкарт”
- Breton: “Descartes”
- Bulgarian: “Декарт”
- Cajun French: “Descartes”
- Catalan: “Descartes”
- Catalan: “La Haye”
- Cebuano: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
- Cebuano: “Descartes”
- Chechen: “ДекагӀт (ЭндгӀ а, ЛуагӀа а)”
- Chechen: “ДекагӀт”
- Chinese: “Descartes”
- Chinese: “代斯卡尔泰”
- Chinese: “图赖讷拉海”
- Chinese: “拉海笛卡尔”
- Chinese: “海亚”
- Chinese: “笛卡尔”
- Chinese: “笛卡爾”
- Corsican: “Descartes”
- Croatian: “Descartes”
- Czech: “Descartes”
- Danish: “Descartes”
- Dutch: “Descartes (Indre-et-Loire)”
- Dutch: “Descartes”
- Dutch: “La Haye en Touraine”
- Dutch: “La Haye-Descartes”
- Esperanto: “Descartes”
- Estonian: “Descartes”
- Faroese: “Descartes”
- Finnish: “Descartes”
- French: “Descartes”
- French: “Haye (La) (devenue Descartes)”
- French: “La Haye Descartes”
- French: “La Haye-Descartes”
- Friulian: “Descartes”
- Galician: “Descartes”
- German: “Descartes”
- German: “La Haye en Touraine”
- German: “La Haye-en-Touraine”
- Greek: “Ντεκάρτ”
- Hebrew: “דקארט”
- Hebrew: “לה איי”
- Hungarian: “Descartes”
- Icelandic: “Descartes”
- Ido: “Descartes”
- Indonesian: “Descartes”
- Interlingua: “Descartes”
- Interlingue: “Descartes”
- Irish: “Descartes”
- Italian: “Descartes”
- Italian: “La Haye en Touraine”
- Jamaican Creole English: “Descartes”
- Japanese: “デカルト”
- Kabyle: “Descartes”
- Kalaallisut: “Descartes”
- Kongo: “Descartes”
- Kurdish: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
- Kurdish: “Descartes”
- Ladin: “Descartes”
- Latin: “Descartes”
- Latvian: “Descartes”
- Ligurian: “Descartes”
- Limburgan: “Descartes”
- Lithuanian: “Descartes”
- Low German: “Descartes”
- Luxembourgish: “Descartes”
- Macedonian: “Декарт”
- Macedonian: “Ла Е ан Турен”
- Mainfränkisch: “Descartes”
- Malagasy: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
- Malagasy: “Descartes”
- Malay: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
- Malay: “Descartes”
- Maltese: “Descartes (La Haye)”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Descartes”
- Minangkabau: “Descartes”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ديكارط”
- Narom: “Descartes”
- Neapolitan: “Descartes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Descartes”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “La Haye en Touraine”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Descartes”
- Norwegian: “Descartes”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Descartes”
- Papiamento: “Descartes”
- Persian: “دکارت، اندره-لوار”
- Picard: “Descartes”
- Piemontese: “Descartes”
- Polish: “Descartes”
- Polish: “La Haye en Touraine”
- Polish: “La Haye-Descartes”
- Portuguese: “Descartes”
- Portuguese: “La Haye en Touraine”
- Prussian: “Descartes”
- Romagnol: “Descartes”
- Romanian: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
- Romanian: “Descartes”
- Romansh: “Descartes”
- Russian: “Декарт”
- Sardinian: “Descartes”
- Scots: “Descartes”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Descartes”
- Serbian: “Dekart”
- Serbian: “Descartes”
- Serbian: “Декарт”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Descartes”
- Sicilian: “Descartes”
- Slovak: “Descartes”
- Slovenian: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
- Slovenian: “Descartes”
- Spanish: “Descartes”
- Spanish: “La Haye en Touraine”
- Swahili: “Descartes”
- Swedish: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
- Swedish: “Descartes”
- Swiss German: “Descartes”
- Tatar: “Декарт (Эндр һәм Луара)”
- Tatar: “Декарт”
- Turkish: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
- Turkish: “Descartes”
- Ukrainian: “Декарт”
- Urdu: “ڈیکارٹ، اندرے-اے-لوآر”
- Uzbek: “Descartes”
- Venetian: “Descartes”
- Vietnamese: “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
- Vietnamese: “Descartes”
- Vlaams: “Descartes”
- Volapük: “Descartes”
- Walloon: “Descartes”
- Waray (Philippines): “Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”
- Waray (Philippines): “Descartes”
- Welsh: “Descartes”
- Wolof: “Descartes”
- Zulu: “Descartes”
- “Descartes”
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