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Floirac
Floirac
Commune
	The Tower of Floirac
	Location of Floirac
	Floirac Floirac
	Coordinates: 44°55′00″N 1°39′19″E / 44.9167°N 1.6553°E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Lot
Arrondissement	Gourdon
Canton	Martel
Intercommunality	Causses et Vallée de la Dordogne
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Alexandre Barrouilhet
Area 1	19.02 km2 (7.34 sq mi)
Population (2022)	240
• Density	13/km2 (33/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	46106 /46600
Elevation	90–345 m (295–1,132 ft) ; (avg. 132 m or 433 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Floirac (French pronunciation: [flwaʁak]) is a commune in the Lot department (46) in south-western France.^[3]

Geography

The commune is located in Quercy on the Causse of Floirac. It is watered by the Dordogne, and bordered to the north-west by its tributary, the Tourmente. Floirac has a surface of 19.02 km² and has 265 inhabitants (as of 2016), which makes a population density of 14 inhabitants per km². The coordinates are 44° 55' N and 1° 39' E. The altitude varies between 90 and 345 metres above sea level, with 140 metres at the town hall.^[4] The D43 road and a single track railway crosses it.

Neighbouring municipalities

Toponymy

The toponym Floirac is based on the Gallo-Roman anthroponymy Florus. The endpoint -ac is derived from the Gallic -acon suffix (itself of the common Celtic *-Āko-), often latinized in-acum in the texts. This Floracum toponym is found in Floracum fundum which meant: the domain of Florus.

Politics

List of successive mayors
Term	Name
2001–2014	Frédéric Bonnet-Madin
2014–2020	Raphaël Daubet
2020–incumbent	Alexandre Barrouilhet

Places and monuments

Entrance of the Chapelle Saint-Roch.
Church of Saint-Georges.
Tour de Floirac.

Chapelle Saint-Roch de Floirac (15th century) Listed as a historic monuments on 10 December 1925
Church Saint-Georges de Floirac (15th century) Listed as a historic monuments on 30 May 1978
Tour de Floirac, dating from the Middle Ages, registered in the title of historical monuments on 8 August 2013