Lacave, Lot

Lacave
Lacave
Commune
	The chateau in Lacave
	Location of Lacave
	Lacave Lacave
	Coordinates: 44°50′43″N 1°33′32″E / 44.8453°N 1.5589°E
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Lot
Arrondissement	Gourdon
Canton	Souillac
Intercommunality	Causses et Vallée de la Dordogne
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Stéphane Chambon[1]
Area 1	21.19 km2 (8.18 sq mi)
Population (2023)[2]	271
• Density	12.8/km2 (33.1/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	46144 /46200
Elevation	80–349 m (262–1,145 ft) ; (avg. 100 m or 330 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Lacave (French pronunciation: [lakav]; Occitan: La Cava) is a commune of France, situated in the North-West of the Lot department, within the Occitanie region.

Geography

Situated in the foothills of the "Causse de Gramat" at the confluence of the Dordogne and the Ouysse, 12 km from Souillac and 8 km from Rocamadour.

Inhabited since the time of the Solutrean and Magdalenian cultures of the Paleolithic era.

List of mayors

Period	Name
1989–2020	André Lestrade
2020–incumbent	Stéphane Chambon

At the start of the 20th century, Lacave had 519 inhabitants "with just 27 concentrated in the main town".[3]

Historical population

Source: EHESS[4] and INSEE (1968–2020)[5]

^ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
^ "Populations de référence 2023" (in French). National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 18 December 2025.
^ Le Lot chapter Souillac et Lacave p.223 - Armand Viré - Réédition de l'ouvrage de 1907 - ISBN 2-7455-0049-X
^ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Lacave, EHESS (in French).
^ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE