CLAMECY, an arrondissement in the department of the Nièvre, in France, extending over 596 square miles.
Clamping It is divided into six cantons, and these into ninety-seven communes, with 61,334 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, stands at the junction of the Beuvron and the Yonne. It contains 770 houses and 5300 inhabitants. In the neighbourhood coal-mines are worked, and there is some trade in spinning and weaving cotton. Long. 3. 26. 6. E. Lat. 47. 27. 37. N.