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![[Flag of Le Conquet]](../images/f/fr-29-lc.gif)
by Arnaud Leroy
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The small port of Le Conquet (2,441 inhabitants; 845 hectares; coasts, 16 km) is located 25 km west of Brest, at the far end of Brittany. Le Conquet has proclaimed itself port du bout du monde (port at the end of the world). It fully deserves its nickname, since it is the westernmost municipality of continental France.
The village of Le Conquet (known in 1341 as Le Conquest) was built between the Atlantic Ocean and the left bank of Aber Conq. The official limit between the Atlantic Ocean and the Channel is the pointe de Corsen, located c. 10 km north of Le Conquet; in Brittany, an aber, aka ria or simply rivière, is a large and often indented estuary, made of a former river valley flooded by the sea after the last glaciation. Such estuaries were often colonized by early settlers, who built there villages and ports. The paeninsula of Kermorvan is located on the right bank of Aber Conq and is lin