Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales)

Prades ( or, simply, "Prada") is a commune in the Pyrénées-Orientales department in southern France. It was the capital of the historic Catalan comarque of Conflent.
It is a subprefecture in the department and the capital of the Prades "arrondissement".
Name of the city.
In Catalan, the name of the "commune" is "Prada", a word that comes from the Latin word "prata" ("prairie").
Geography.
Prades is the main ciy of the Conflent, a natural region of the Pyrénées-Orientales; it is at the foothill of the Canigou mountain, to the west of Perpignan. The Têt river flows through the city.
It has an area of and its average altitude is ; at the city hall, the altitude is .
The "commune" is at from Perpignan. It is surrounded by the "communes" Catllar, Eus, Los Masos, Clara, Taurinya, Codalet, Ria-Sirach.
Climate.
The climate in Prades in the Köppen climate classification is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.
Population.
The inhabitants of Prades city are known, in French, as "Pradéens" (women: "Pradéennes"); "Pradencs" and "Pradenques in Catalan".
With a population in 2014 of 5,927, Prades has a population density of inhabitants/km2.
Evolution of the population in Prades
Administration.
Prades is a subprefecture of the Pyrénées-Orientales department since 1790. It is also the capital of the "arrondissement" of Prades and the administrative centre () of the canton Les Pyrénées catalanes with 62 "communes" and 26,765 inhabitants in 2014.
It is part of the intercommunality "Conflent Canigó" ().
Twinned and partner towns.
Prades is twinned with:
Sites of interest.
Some places of interest in or around Prades are:
People from or related to Prades.
Prades was also the adopted home of cellist Pablo Casals and grammarian Pompeu Fabra during their exile from the Spanish Civil War. A small museum in Prades commemorates Casals.