Canéjan is a commune

Communes of France

The commune is the lowest level of administrative division in the French Republic. French communes are roughly equivalent to incorporated municipalities or villages in the United States or Gemeinden in Germany...

 in the Gironde

Gironde

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 department in Aquitaine

Aquitaine

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 in southwestern France

France

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Geography

Canéjan is located 11.4 km southwest of Bordeaux

Bordeaux

Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...

. It is on the A63 autoroute

A63 autoroute

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, as well as the Route nationale 10

Route nationale 10

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The commune borders Cestas

Cestas

Cestas is a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.-Population:-References:*...

 (southwest), Gradignan

Gradignan

Gradignan is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France.It is a suburb of the city of Bordeaux and is located on its southwest side...

 (northeast), Pessac

Pessac

Pessac is a commune in the Gironde department in Aquitaine in southwestern France.It is the second-largest suburb of the city of Bordeaux and is adjacent to it on the southwest. It is a member of the metropolitan Urban Community of Bordeaux...

 (north), and Léognan

Léognan

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 (southeast).

History

Gallo-Romans' relics has been discovered which attest human presence around the end of the 1st century and the beginning of the 2nd century.

On August 20, 1949, 29 people from Canéjan died at Le Punch (Cestas), while fighting a fire which killed 82 and burned 140,000 hectares (346,000 acres). In September 1949, General Charles de Gaulle

Charles de Gaulle

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle was a French general and statesman who led the Free French Forces during World War II. He later founded the French Fifth Republic in 1958 and served as its first President from 1959 to 1969....

came in Canéjan to visit firefighters' graves.

Name

There used to be two different ways of spelling the name of the city, Canéjean or Canéjan, in July 1987 it has been decided to keep only one: Canéjan.

Population