Audaux

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

Geography

Hydrography

The grounds of the commune are sprinkled by the Gave d' Oloron, affluent of the Gave of Pau, and by its tributaries, the river the Saleys (like by its affluent, the brook Herré), the brooks Barthes and of Labaigt (like by the affluent of this one, the Gouarin brook).

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Castetbon and Loubieng in north
Bugnein in the east
Ossenx and Araujuzon in the west
Araux and Viellenave-with-Navarrenx in south-west

Toponymy

The toponym Audaux appears in the forms Aldaus (XIe century, according to Pierre de Marca), Audaus (1178, collection Duchesne volume CXIV) and Feels Bisentz d' Audaus (1612, insinuations of the diocese of Oloron).

History

Paul Raymond note that in 1385 the commune depended on the Bailliage of Navarrenx and counted 84 fires. Audaux was a dependence of the Marquisat de Gassion.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to nine inter-commune structures:

the Community of communes of the canton of Navarrenx
SIVOM of the canton of Navarrenx
intercommunity association of the gaves and Saleys
forest mixed trade-union of the oak groves of the Basque valleys and inhabitants of Béarn
trade union of the schools of Gaveausset
trade union of the perception of Navarrenx
trade union AEP of Navarrenx
intercommunity association of cleansing Audaux - Bugnein 2 AB
departmental trade union of electrification.

Demography

Economy

The activity is mainly agricultural (breeding, corn).

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

The castle dates from the XVIIe century.

Religious heritage

Environmental inheritance

Equipment

The commune has of an elementary school and a private vocational school (college Holy-Bernadette).

Personalities related to the commune

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