an arrondissement of the department of the Aude, in France, extending over 830 square miles. It is divided into 12 cantons and 141 communes. The population amounts to 89,139 persons. The chief place, from which the arrondissement takes its name, is a city CARAXENTE, a town of Spain, in the province of Valencia, containing 5900 inhabitants. There are mills here for making silk thread; and oranges and pomegranates are cultivated in the neighbourhood. Lat. 39.11. N.