Camboulive

Camboulive is a small rural locality in France, commonly described as a village. It embodies the characteristics of many countryside settlements in its region, with a compact built core surrounded by agricultural land.

Camboulive sits on gently rolling terrain, with fields, hedgerows and patches of woodland. The nearby waterways and soils support crops and pasture. The climate is temperate, with warm summers and cool winters, typical of rural southern France.

The earliest written references to Camboulive date from the medieval period, when the settlement centered on a parish church and a nearby manor. Through the centuries, it experienced the common rural patterns of demography, landholding, and agricultural change that shaped nearby communities.

Today Camboulive remains small, with a dispersed settlement pattern around the church and agricultural buildings. It is administered as part of a larger local jurisdiction within France’s general framework of regions, departments and communes; governance is typically carried out by an elected village council and a mayor in common with nearby villages.

The local economy is predominantly agricultural, supplemented by rural trades and small services. Landmark features include the parish church, traditional stone houses, and the surrounding farmland landscape that characterizes the area.

See also: List of rural communes in France.