Almenêches () is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.
Geography
The commune of is made up of the following villages and hamlets, Saint-Hippolyte, Almenêches, Fligny, La Gare, Le Mesnil, Les Champs Bouchers, Le Friche, Surônes and Les Essarts.
The Commune is one of 27 communes that make up the Natura 2000 protected area of Bocages et vergers du sud Pays d'Auge.
Almenêches along with another 65 communes is also part of a 20,593 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, the Haute vallée de l'Orne et affluents.
Almenêches has a total of 15 water courses running through it, three rivers Orne, Dieuge and Don. The other twelve watercourses are all streams;
la Gironde Fausse Rivière Querpont L'Epinet Noës Essards Essards Essarts Rogneux Calvaire Joncerai Plessis
Places of interest
National heritage sites
Almenêches church a 16th-century Church that was part of Almenêches Abbey and listed as a Monument historique in 1948.
Population
The inhabitants are known as Almenéchois in French.Mairie d'Almenêches, Ouest-France.fr.
Notable people Louis-Guillaume Perreaux (1816 -1889) an inventor who submitted one of the first patents for a working motorcycle in 1869, was born here.
Heraldry
See also Communes of the Orne department
References