an arrondissement in the department of the Eastern Pyrenees, in France, 680 square miles in extent. It is divided into four cantons and forty-six communes, and contains 28,629 inhabitants. The chief place, of the same name, is situated on the river Tech, at the foot of the Pyrenees. The situation is picturesque, and has some delightful promenades around it. The houses are 416, and the inhabitants 2517. Long. 2.36. E. Lat. 42.23. N.