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What (who) is Cantal - definition

FRENCH DEPARTMENT

Cantal (département); Department of Cantal; Haute-Auvergne; Cantal (departement); Roman Catholic Diocese of Cantal; Diocese of Cantal

cantal

['kant?:l]

¦ noun a hard, strong cheese made chiefly in the Auvergne.

Origin

named after Cantal, a department of Auvergne, France.

Cantal cheese

CANTAL CHEESE IS AN UNCOOKED FIRM CHEESE PRODUCED IN THE AUVERGNE REGION OF CENTRAL FRANCE.

Cantal (cheese)

Cantal cheese is an uncooked firm cheese produced in the Auvergne region of central France: more particularly in the département of Cantal (named after the Cantal mountains) as well as in certain adjoining districts. Cantal cheese was granted Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée certification in 1956.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantal_cheese

Mounts of Cantal

MOUNTAIN RANGE

Monts du Cantal; Cantal mounts

The Mounts of Cantal (or Volcanoes of Cantal; ) are a mountainous massif in the mid-west of the Massif Central, France, made up of the remnants of the largest stratovolcano of Europe, which was formed from 13 million years ago and last erupted approximately 2 million years ago. However, the main part of the volcanic activity was concentrated between 8.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mounts_of_Cantal

Wikipedia

Cantal

Cantal (French pronunciation: [kɑ̃tal] (listen); Occitan: Cantal or Cantau) is a department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region of France, with its prefecture in Aurillac. Its other principal towns are Saint-Flour (the episcopal see) and Mauriac; its residents are known as Cantalians (French: Cantaliens / Cantaliennes or Cantalous / Cantaloues). Cantal borders the departments of Puy-de-Dôme, Haute-Loire, Aveyron, Lot, Lozère and Corrèze, in the Massif Central natural region.

Along with neighbouring Lozère and Creuse, Cantal is among the most sparsely populated and geographically isolated departments of France and Aurillac is the departmental capital farthest removed from a major motorway. It had a population of 144,692 in 2019, making it the country's 98th most populated department. Of the 96 metropolitan departments, it is the fifth least populated.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantal

Examples of use of Cantal

1. Temperatures dropped to 6c (43f) in the mountainous central Cantal region, where it snowed in some areas, and 50mph winds were reported along the Atlantic.