Indre-et-Loire

**Indre-et-Loire** is a department in west-central France named after the Indre and the Loire rivers.

Its prefecture is the city of Tours.

## History
Indre-et-Loire is one of the original 83 departments created during the French Revolution on 4 March 1790 with Tours as is capital. It was formed with part of the former province of Touraine.

It was divided in seven districts: Tours, Amboise, Château-Renault, Loches, Chinon, Preuilly and Langeais.

In 1800, with the creation of the *arrondissements* in France, the seven districts were changed into three *arrondissements*: Chinon, Loches and Tours. it is in the *commune* of Céré-la-Ronde in the northeast of the department on the border with the Loir-et-Cher department.

The Loire river flows through the department and divides it in two parts. The Indre, Cher and Vienne rivers join the Loire river in the Indre-et-Loire department.

### Climate
This area is characterized by climates with few extremes of temperature. The Köppen climate classification type for the climate at Tours is a "Marine West Coast Climate" and of the subtype "**Cfb**".

The average amount of precipitation for the year in Tours is . The month with the most precipitation on average is  October with  of precipitation. The month with the least precipitation on average is August with an average of .

The average temperature for the year in Toulon is . The warmest month, on average, is July with an average temperature of . The coolest month on average is January, with an average temperature of .

## Administration
Indre-et-Loire is managed by the *Departmental Council of Ardennes* in Tours. The department is part of the Centre-Val de Loire region.

### Administrative divisions
There are 3 *arrondissements* (districts), 19 *cantons* and 273 *communes* (municipalities) in Indre-et-Loire.

The following is a list of the 19 cantons of the **Indre-et-Loire** department (with their INSEE codes), following the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015:

# Amboise (3701)
# Ballan-Miré (3702)
# Bléré (3703)
# Château-Renault (3704)
# Chinon (3705)
# Descartes (3706)
# Joué-lès-Tours (3707)
# Langeais (3708)
# Loches (3709)
# Montlouis-sur-Loire (3710)
# Monts (3711)
# Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire (3712)
# Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine (3713)
# Saint-Pierre-des-Corps (3714)
# Tours-1 (3715)
# Tours-2 (3716)
# Tours-3 (3717)
# Tours-4 (3718)
# Vouvray (3719)

## Demographics
The inhabitants of the Indre-et-Loire department are known, in French, as *Tourangeaux* (women: *Tourangelles*),

Indre-et-Loire had a population, in 2014, of 603,924, for a population density of  inhabitants/km2. The *arrondissement* of Tours, with 466,232 inhabitants, is the *arrondissement* with more inhabitants.

**Evolution of the population in Indre-et-Loire**

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The *communes* with more than 10,000 inhabitants in the department are:

## Gallery

File:Château Chinon.JPG|Chinon
File:Chateau de Chenonceau 2008E.jpg|Château de Chenonceau
File:Chateau-Azay-le-Rudeau-1.jpg|Château d'Azay-le-Rideau
File:ChateaudAmboiseSW.jpg|Château d'Amboise
File:Montresor02.jpg|Montrésor

## Related pages
* Arrondissements of the Indre-et-Loire department
* Communes of the Indre-et-Loire department

## References
## Other websites
* 
* Departmental Council website 
* Prefecture of the Indre-et-Loire department 
* Official tourist website of Touraine Loire Valley