Banca

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

Its Basque name is Banka . Its inhabitants are the Bankars .

Geography

Communes bordering

Saint-Etienne-with-Baïgorry in north
Anhaux and Wearies in the North-East
Aldudes in the west
Urepel in south-west

The commune is bordering with the Spain in the west, the east and the south.

Administration

Intercommunality

The commune adheres to the Mixed trade-union of the contract of river of Nives.

Demography

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

At the northern entry of the village the vestiges of a metallurgical exploitation with its Haut-fourneau remain. The feeder canal which overhangs it, supplied with water of Nive collected upstream, probably involved a wheel and a blower injecting the air in the base of the blast furnace. The adjacent buildings, always overhung by the channel, were to shelter the Laminoir S which also used the driving force of the river.

Religious heritage

Environmental inheritance

The gallery Petechanea (0,1 ha) is one of the sites of the regional academy of natural spaces of the Pyrenees.

Internal bond

Common of the Yrénées-Atlantiques

External bonds

Banca on Bascoweb

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