Vaucluse Zip code

Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur is an area in the southeast of France. Vaucluse is a department in this area. 559,016 people live there now. The prefecture of the department is Avignon. It is named after a spring, the Fontaine de Vaucluse, which is one of the world's largest karst springs. It is in France. The name Vaucluse itself comes from the Latin Vallis Clausa, which means "closed valley." Because the valley ends in a cliff face from which the spring comes, the name refers to the valley as "closed."