River:
- the Seine, the Oise
- Name of inhabitants:
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- Yvelines, Yvelinoise
- Census Date:
- 1999
- Population: 1,395,000
- Hab.
- Space:
- 2 284 km ²
The territory has been occupied since Yvelines 400,000 years and its important archaeological heritage has been the subject of many studies. Preferred sites for installation are found in valleys, near rivers and in the northern department, with richer soil is favorable to agriculture and livestock. Besides the prehistoric remains, as some collective graves, are the Gallo-Roman are most rich. On the landscape, the forest department has several, including that of Rambouillet, one of the largest in France. These forests have been cleared may be, like many others, if they had not been a favored hunting grounds of the kings of France. The flag of La Muette in the forest of Saint-Germain and Park Rambouillet from that era.
Water also plays an important role. Indeed, the territory is at the heart of a resurgent navigation chip for both the transport of goods to that of passengers. The department houses the capital of the skippers to Conflans-Sainte-Honorine and has a range of facilities in operation (dams, locks'). Yvelines were also the birthplace of many innovations, the famous "toiles de Jouy, created eighteenth century to the royal manufactory at Jouy-en-Josas, in impressionist who immortalized the light of specific cities Bougival, Louveciennes and Port-Marly.
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