Coulonges-sur-Sarthe (, literally Coulonges on Sarthe) is a commune in the Orne department in north-western France.
Geography
The commune is made up of the following collection of villages and hamlets, Couillery, Les Petites Hayes, La Dannerie, Les Grandes Hayes, Coulonges-sur-Sarthe, La Tréberdière, Mortruis and Souvelle.
The commune along with another 32 communes is part of a 3,503 hectare, Natura 2000 conservation area, called the Haute vallée de la Sarthe.
The commune is in the Normandie-Maine Regional Natural Park.
The Sarthe river and one it's tributaries flow through the commune.
Points of Interest Base de Loisirs is a lake, that is used for swimming, and features a beach area. Ancienne champignonnière des Petites Hayes translated as the Old mushroom Farm of Petit Hayes is a Natura 2000 conservation site measuring 12.77 Hectares. The site is a former Chalk mine, that later became a mushroom farm, which hosts six varieties of bats, listed in Annex 2 of the Habitats Directive, which are the Greater horseshoe bat, Lesser horseshoe bat, Western barbastelle, Geoffroy's bat, Bechstein's bat and the Greater mouse-eared bat.
See also Communes of the Orne department Parc naturel régional Normandie-Maine
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