Bougarber

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

Bougarber is a Bastide Béarn ease whose name means Bourg Garbè “borough gerbier”.

Geography

Bougarber extends today beyond the limits from the country house, along the ways perpendicular to the medieval main street. The frame is a little densified along this way. The ditches were filled. Remain in place, the northern door of XIVéme century, rare specimen of the defensive system of the country houses inhabitants of Béarn.

The Géüle, affluent of the Gave of Pau, takes its source on the territory of the commune, of which the grounds are also sprinkled by the Uzan, affluent of the Luy de Béarn and Uilhède flows of the Long Aïgue.

Localities and variations

(outline)

Arbus
Bédat
Casales
Cloutet
Lanne
the espiau ( Lespiaup in 1290, Commenda Sancti Jabobi de Spinalba in 1527)
Liret
Luchane
Pétarrère
Lays Long
Peyre
the Greenhouse
the Uzan

Communes bordering

Viellenave-in Arthez in north
Momas in the North-East
Cescau in the North-West
Uzein in the east
Denguin in south-west
Beyrie-in-Béarn and Poey-with-Lescar in the south.

History

The name Borc Garber in 1385, Bourgarber in 1625, Bougarber at the 18th century comes from two words of Germanic origin borc /burk/ “borough” and garbè ( garbarius ) derived from garba “sheaf of corn”.

Administration

Intercommunality

The town of Bougarber belongs to the Communauté of communes of Miey de Béarn which gathers 14 communes.

Demography

Culture and Inheritance

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