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Coordinates: 42°37′05″N 2°25′22″E / 42.6181°N 2.4228°E / 42.6181; 2.4228
Country	France
Region	Occitanie
Department	Pyrénées-Orientales
Arrondissement	Prades
Canton	Les Pyrénées catalanes
Intercommunality	Conflent-Canigó
Government
• Mayor (2014 - 2020)	Jean Castex (UMP)
Area 1	10.87 km2 (4.20 sq mi)
Population  (2014)	5,927
• Density	550/km2 (1,400/sq mi)
Demonym	Pradéens
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	66149 /66500
Elevation	300–745 m (984–2,444 ft) (avg. 523 m or 1,716 ft)
Website	Official website
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Prades (Catalan: Prada de Conflent 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.

In Catalan, the name of the commune is Prada,^[1] a word that comes from the Latin word prata ("prairie").

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 10.87 km² (4.20 sq mi) and its average altitude is 523 m (1,716 ft); at the city hall, the altitude is 356 m (1,168 ft).^[2]

Prades and its neighboring communes

The commune is at 44 km (27 mi) from Perpignan. It is surrounded by the communes Catllar, Eus, Los Masos, Clara, Taurinya, Codalet, Ria-Sirach.

The climate in Prades in the Köppen climate classification is Cfb - Oceanic climate with template summers.

The inhabitants of Prades city are known, in French, as Pradéens (women: Pradéennes); Pradencs and Pradenques in Catalan.^[3]

With a population in 2014 of 5,927,^[4] Prades has a population density of 545 inhabitants/km².

Evolution of the population in Prades

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 (French: chef-lieu) of the canton Les Pyrénées catalanes with 62 communes and 26,765 inhabitants in 2014.

It is part of the intercommunality Conflent Canigó (French: Communauté de communes Conflent Canigó).

Prades is twinned with:^[5]

• Ripoll, Spain, from 1969
• Kitzingen, Germany, from 1984
• Lousã, Portugal, from 1991

Some places of interest in or around Prades are:

• Saint-Peter church with its bell-tower
• Saint-Martin de Canoha (Sant Marti de Canoa) chapel
• Jacomet House, dating back from the XVth century

• Pierre Nicolas Camille Jacquelin du Val (1828-1862), entomologist born in Prades.
• Thomas Merton (1915–1968), trappist monk born in 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.

• Arrondissement of Prades
• Communes of the Pyrénées-Orientales department

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Prades (Pyrénées-Orientales).

• Mairie de Prades website (in French)
• Prades tourist information office^{[permanent dead link]} (in French)
• Universitat Catalana d'Estiu (Catalan Summer University) (in Catalan)