Jouars-Pontchartrain

Sister cities

• Cella
• Hammond

Geography

The town of Jouars-Pontchartrain is located 35 km west of Paris, 18 km west of Versailles and 22 km from Rambouillet, on a buttress which delimits the western end of the plain of Versailles and at the foot from which begins the plain of Montfort-l'Amaury. Its territory is irrigated by the Mauldre whose south-north oriented course follows the eastern limit of the town and receives in the park of the Château de Pontchartrain the Élancourt brook, a diversion of which feeds its pond. This brook, oriented east-west, is enlarged a little upstream by the Maurepas brook which joins it at Chennevières. The commune comprises seven hamlets: * Pontchartrain, in the north of the municipal territory, heart of the municipality, where are located, around the town hall, the Saint-Lin church and the Saint-Louis hospital, the majority of local shops and most of housing. * Chennevières, south-east of Pontchartrain and adjoining it. It is a residential and old hamlet, formerly a humid places where the culture of hemp prospered. * La Richarderie, to the east of Chennevières and adjoining it, is a semi-residential, semi-rural hamlet. * Jouars, away to the south of Pontchartrain, has a church and has only a few dwellings and rural farms. * Ergal, in the far east and on the edge of the municipal territory is adjoining the hamlet of Launay in the municipality of Élancourt, half-residential, half-rural. * Les Mousseaux, south of Jouars, on the edge of the municipal territory and adjoining the hamlet of Villeneuve (parc aux Loups) in the municipality of Maurepas, is half-residential, half-rural with a few small craft businesses. * La Dauberie, a very wooded residential area, is on the edge of Saint-Rémy-l'Honoré. The last two hamlets form a kind of enclave between the municipal…

Most-observed species

• Great Tit

  Parus major Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  7,792
• Common Wood-Pigeon

  Columba palumbus Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  7,497
• European Robin

  Erithacus rubecula (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  7,234
• Eurasian Blue Tit

  Cyanistes caeruleus (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  7,226
• Eurasian Magpie

  Pica pica (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  6,569
• Common Chaffinch

  Fringilla coelebs Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  6,419
• Carrion Crow

  Corvus corone Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  5,985
• Eurasian Blackbird

  Turdus merula Linnaeus, 1758 · Aves
  5,586

Most recent

• M 3.1 — 2005-06-01
  3 km N of Grandvilliers, France