The town of Cause de Clerans is located in the Lalinde district in Dordogne.
It is a member of the Community of Communes Entre Dordogne et Louyre and of the Greater Bergerac Area Community of Communes.
It has 320 inhabitants on a surface area of 1435 hectares.

Its name of the town in Occitan is Cause de Clarenç. Perhaps it is a variation of the Occitan “causse” (limestone soil), Latin calcis – probably Clarentius, a Gallo-Roman person’s name.

The local council elected in 2008
Mayor : M. MONTI Bruno
1st Deputy : MOURET Gérard
2nd Deputy : CROUE Danielle
3rd Deputy : GREZEL Bernadette
Local Councillors : CROUE Huguette ; ROY Pascal ; KJELLBERG Carolin ; FAUJANET Régis ; COUTOU Denis ; CHORT Thierry ; BARTHAZ Jean-Noël