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Aquitaine region ( :S.S.-CG47) |
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The Lot-et-Garonne département is in the Aquitaine region of south-west France. It was created in 1790 from parts of the historic provinces of Guyenne and Gascony.
Lying in a plain in the centre of the Aquitaine Basin, Lot-et-Garonne has an area of 2,069 sq mi (5,358 sq km), the equivalent of Hertfordshire and Essex combined, with a population of 298,600, one tenth that of the two English counties.
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The meeting of two rivers
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It is crossed southeast–northwest by the Garonne River, which flows through Agen, its capital, and is joined by the Lot River before flowing through Tonneins and Marmande and on to Bordeaux. The climate is largely maritime, with temperate winters and hot summers.
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