Haute-Garonne [SEP] located in the administrative territorial entity
Garonne, to the north. The new department, created in response to the pleadings of various locally powerful politicians, took territory from five surrounding departments including Haute-Garonne. The districts lost to Tarn-et-Garonne in 1808 were those of Montech and Castelsarrasin.
Geography.
Haute-Garonne is part of the current region of Occitanie and is surrounded by the departments of Hautes-Pyrénées, Gers, Tarn-et-Garonne, Tarn, Aude, and Ariège. It also borders Spain in the south (
Canton of Portet-sur-Garonne
The canton of Portet-sur-Garonne is an administrative division of the Haute-Garonne department, southern France. Its borders were modified at the French canton reorganisation which came into effect in March 2015. Its seat is in Portet-sur-Garonne.
It consists of the following communes:
1. Eaunes
2. Labarthe-sur-Lèze
3. Lagardelle-sur-Lèze
4. Pinsaguel
5. Pins-Justaret
6. Portet-