page_title: Aube
section_title: Forests and lakes
hierarchical_section_title: Aube / Geography / Forests and lakes
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Le lac du Temple, vu depuis la digue.
context_page_description: Aube is a French department in the Grand Est region of north-eastern France. As with sixty departments in France, this department is named after a river: the Aube. With 305,606 inhabitants, Aube is 76th department in terms of population. The inhabitants of the department are known as Aubois or Auboises
  The department was constituted as it is today by a decree of the National Assembly of 15 January 1790.
context_section_description: The department has 140,000 hectares of forests.
  Located in the Community of communes of Forests, lakes, and lands in Champagne, the Orient Forest Regional Natural Park was one of the first natural parks created in France.
  In the same place, there is the Orient Lake and the Amance and Temple lakes where fishing, recreational water sports, and bathing are available. Each lake specialises in one or more of these activities.
caption: Temple Lake seen from the dam
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