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

Its name Basque is Garindaine .

Geography

The commune extends along D918.

Hydrography

The grounds of the commune are sprinkled by the Saison, which emerges in the Gave d' Oloron and by its affluents the brooks Arangorena (12,5 km) and Urgorri.
The Quihilliri brook, tributary of the Pagolla Uraitza (16,2 km) which is thrown in the Bidouze, also sprinkles the grounds of the commune.

Localities and hamlets

  • District of Lambare, commun run with Ainharp.

Communes bordering

Toponymy

The toponym Garindein appears in the forms Garindenh (1475, contracts of Ohix), Garindayn (1479, titles of Bayonne), Garindeing (1612, insinuations of the diocese of Oloron).
A suffix, áin , made it possible to form domain names on the basis of name of their founder (mainly in Navarre and Soule): Garindein is thus the 'field of Galindo .
The toponym Lambare appears in the form lo bedat of Lambarre (1476, contracts of Ohix).

History

Administration

Intercommunality

Garindein belongs to five inter-commune structures:
  • the Community of communes of Drunk-Xiberoa
  • trade union for the support for the Basque culture
  • intercommunity association for the construction and the operation of THESE of Mauléon
  • trade union of cleansing of the Countries of Drunk
  • departmental trade union of electrification.

Demography

The figure of population of 2006 is that of the provisional population established by INSEE.

Economy

The activity is primarily turned towards agriculture (breeding and pastures).

Culture and inheritance

Garindein was famous for the realization of many pastoral.

Each year, the Festival of the Song Basque proceeds in Garindein on August 14th (36ème edition in 2007).

Civil inheritance

Religious heritage

The church Saint-Vincent-with-Dax date of the XVIIe century and its bell-tower of the XIXe century.

Environmental inheritance

Equipment

The commune has an elementary school.

Personalities related to the commune

  • Jon Mirande, (Paris, 1925 - 1972) is a Basque writer, born within a drunk family clay crusher which emigrated with the French capital in the search of work. His/her father, Jean Mirande, were originating in Garindein and his mother, Marie d' Ayphasorho, of Chéraute.

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