Castetnau-Camblong

See also: Camblong (homonymy)

Castetnau-Camblong 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, and by its affluent, the brook the Lausset like by the tributaries of this last, the riu Lanebielle, the brook of Harcellane and the riu of Carrié and its affluent, the brook Serrot.

Localities and hamlets

  • the district of the station
  • the Bottom of Border
  • the district of Crestiaas
  • new Château
  • the district Débantets

Communes bordering

Toponymy

The toponym Castetnau appears in the forms Castrum de Castelnau (1205, cartulaire of Lescar), lo Casteg-nau d' Arribere de Navarrencx (1289, notaries of Navarrenx) and Castegnau E Camlonc (1385, censier of Béarn).
The toponym Camblong appears in the forms Camplonc (1289, notaries of Navarrenx), Nostre-Gives of Camplonc (1412, notaries of Navarrenx), the St. Lawrence de Camplonc (1620, insinuations of the diocese of Oloron) and Camploncq (1675, reformation of Béarn).

History

Paul Raymond note that in 1385, Castetnau counted 53 fires and depended on the Bailliage of Navarrenx.
There was in Camblong a vassal laic abbey of the Viscount of Béarn.

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 Gaves and Saleys
  • forest mixed trade-union of the oak groves of the Basque valleys and inhabitants of Béarn
  • trade union of regrouping of Castetnau-Camblong and Sus
  • trade union of the perception of Navarrenx
  • trade union AEP of Navarrenx
  • trade union of cleansing of Navarrenx
  • departmental trade union of electrification.

Demography

2004: provisional population of INSEE.

Economy

The activity is mainly agricultural (breeding, pastures, mixed-farming).

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Religious heritage

The St. Lawrence church dates from the XIXe century.

Environmental inheritance

Equipment

The commune has an elementary school.

Personalities related to the commune

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