Ainharp

Ainharp is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.

Its name Basque is Ainharbe.

Geography

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by the brooks Lafaure (16,7 km), and Borlaas, both affluents of the Saison.
The brook Quihilliri, an affluent of the Pagolla Uraitza (16,2 km, are thrown in the Bidouze) also sprinkles the grounds of the commune.

Localities and hamlets

District of Lambare, commun run with Garindein

Communes bordering

Aroue-Ithorots-Olhaïby in north
Lohitzun-Oyhercq in the North-West
Espès-Undurein and Viodos-Abense-with-Low in the east
Mauléon-Licharre in south-east
Garindein and Ordiarp in the south

Toponymy

The toponym Ainharp appears in the forms Ayharp (1472, notaries of Labastide-Villefranche), Espitau d' Anharp and Aynharp (1479, contracts of Ohix), Aignharp (1608, insinuations of the diocese of Oloron).
The toponym Lambare appears in the form lo bedat of Lambarre (1476, contracts of Ohix).

History

Paul Raymond note which the commune was an old priory of the diocese of Oloron and which one found there a hospital for the pèlerins.

Administration

Intercommunality

Ainharp belongs to seven inter-commune structures:

the Community of communes of Drunk-Xiberoa
trade union for the support for the Basque culture
intercommunity association of the Valley
intercommunity association for the construction and the operation of THESE of Mauléon
trade union AEP of the Country of Drunk
trade union of cleansing of the Country of Drunk
departmental trade union of electrification.

Demography

The figure of population of 2006 is a provisional population of INSEE.

Economy

The activity is primarily agricultural (corn and breeding)

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Religious heritage

The commune has a church whose origin goes back to XIe century and a bell-tower-martyrdom of the XVIIe century. Its cemetery raises steles discoïdales dating from the time of the bell-tower.

The village is located on a secondary way of the Pèlerinage of Saint-Jacques-to-Compostelle which passed on the main road of the Wearing of Cize, the priory of Saint-Palate to that of Saint-Michel-the-Old man, and just like laid out of an old people's home of pilgrims the Hospital-Saint-Blaise, Osserain, Pagolle, Roquiague, Haux, Larrau and Ordiarp.

Equipment

The commune has an elementary school ('' Intsauspia '').

Personalities related to the commune

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