Cordey

Cordey
Cordey
Commune
	The church in Cordey
	Location of Cordey
	Cordey Cordey
	Coordinates: 48°51′05″N 0°13′39″W
Country	France
Region	Normandy
Department	Calvados
Arrondissement	Caen
Canton	Falaise
Intercommunality	Pays de Falaise
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Roger Bisson[1]
Area 1	4.52 km2 (1.75 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2020)[2]	155
• Density	34/km2 (89/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	14180 /14700
Elevation	142–229 m (466–751 ft) ; (avg. 183 m or 600 ft)
	1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Cordey (French pronunciation: [kɔʁdɛ] ^ⓘ) is a commune in the Calvados department in the Normandy region in northwestern France.

Geography

The commune of Cordey is part of the area known as Suisse Normande.[3]

The river Baize runs through the commune, along with three of its tributaries, Bilaine and Ruisseau du Val [4][5][6]

To the North of the village is an old quarry that is registered as a Zone naturelle d'intérêt écologique, faunistique et floristique.[8] The Quarry contains the only known population of Polytrichum pallidisetum, a type of Hair cap moss, in Lower Normandy and the rare reindeer cup lichen[9]

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