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.
Jean-Charles GUILLO, Public domain.- Village with 3,290 residents
- …lies at an elevation of 55 metres (180 feet)
- Description: commune in Indre-et-Loire, France
- Also known as“37115”“Descartes, Indre-et-Loire”“Haye (La) (devenue Descartes)”“La Haye en Touraine”“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
Notre-Dame de La Haye is a former parish church in the…
Église Saint-Georges de La Haye-Descartes
Church
Église Saint-Georges de La Haye-Descartes is a church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buxeuil and Abilly.
Buxeuil
Village
Buxeuil is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.
Abilly
Village
Abilly is a commune in the Indre-et-Loire department in central France. Abilly is situated 4½ km southeast of Descartes.
Descartes
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Latitude
46.9741° or 46° 58′ 27″ north
Longitude
0.6995° or 0° 41′ 58″ east
Open location code
8FR2XMFX+JR
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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: “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”
- Jèrriais: “Descartes”
- 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”
- 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”
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