Département des Hautes-Pyrénées

Le Département des Hautes-Pyrénées is a French local authority. It oversees local policies in the following areas: • Solidarity, social action, health o Assistance for the elderly o Social assistance for children o Assistance for people with disabilities o Combating exclusion and poverty • Education, culture, and sports o Middle schools (maintenance and modernization, participation in operations and equipment, management of maintenance and catering staff) o Sport (partnership with the Departmental Olympic and Sports Committee, assistance to committees, professional athletes, school sports and sporting events, support to municipalities for equipment) o Culture (departmental archives, departmental media library, departmental cultural sites, support to local cultural actors) o Preservation of heritage • Sustainable land use planning o Departmental roads o Development and facilities o Protection of the population (Departmental service o Environment o Tourism o Agriculture The Hautes-Pyrénées Department is made up of 17 cantons represented by 34 departmental councilors, locally elected representatives of the Hautes-Pyrénées “territory.” Around 1,700 officials implement local departmental policies. The Hautes-Pyrénées department borders Spain. It is mainly rural, partly mountainous, and has a population of around 230,000.