Isturits

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

Its name Basque is Izturitze .

Geography

The commune is located in the Vallée of Arberoue.

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by the Arbéroue and its affluents, Altzerreka (and by the affluent of this one, Othalatzéko erreka) and the brook of Héguia, and by Carabindéguiko Erreka, tributary of the Lihoury.

Localities and hamlets

  • Ameztoi, Bakardatz, Etxe xuri, Garakoitz, Haltzerreka, Hegia, Hiriarte, Jaimetegi, Mendilahartsu (or Mendilahaxou), Oihartegi, Oihanburu, Laharraga, Sarhia, Satharitz (or Satharits-Urruty), Sokobia, Xelaito, Zepuru.

Communes bordering

Toponymy

The toponym Isturits appears in the forms Isturitz (1321, titles of Camara de Comptos), Izturiz (1513, titles of Pampelune) and Sancta Eulalia d' Isturits (1754, collations of the diocese of Bayonne).
The toponym Mendilahaxou appears in the form Mendilaharsu (1435, titles of Pampelune).
The toponym Satharits appears in the form Satariz (1621, Martin Biscay).

History

Prehistory

The caves of Isturits , revealed stone tools cut dating from the Moustérien as well as a mandible of Homme of Néandertal.
Moustériennes layers, stopped by a stage where very many skeletons of bear tangle up, are present at one great depth in this old terrace of alluvia of the Nive.
The industries of the Aurignacien, the Solutréen and the Magdalénien are also represented in these caves. Parietal paintings just like date from the Paléolithique superior the carved objects which were discovered there (flint points, Sagaie S and Harpon S in wood of reindeer or bone).
Following the profound changes of the climate marking the end of Paleolithic, the site of Isturits will cease being inhabited until the Âge of copper, protected by a tablecloth from Stalagmite S whose formation indicates centuries of total abandonment.

See also: Caves of Isturitz and Oxocelhaya

History

Paul Raymond note that the strongholds of Mendilahaxou and Satharits depended on the Royaume of Navarre.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one takes part in seven inter-commune structures:

  • the Community of communes of the Country of Hasparren “Hazparneko lurraldea”

  • Trade union for the support for the Basque culture
  • Intercommunity association for the realization of an old people's home in the valley of Arberoue
  • Intercommunity association for the artisanal zone of Ayherre
  • Adour-Ursuia Trade union of noncollective cleansing
  • Trade union AEP of Arberoue
  • departmental Trade union of electrification.

Demography

2004: provisional population of INSEE.

Economy

The activity of the commune is mainly agricultural.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

  • Jacques de Béla, in his shelves written about 1615, indicates that the inhabitants of Isturits practiced the play of the short ball , cousin of the Croquet.
  • protohistoric Fortifications
form a series of prehistoric caves located on the natural site of the hill of Gaztelu in the Vallée of Arberoue.
The Abarratea, 342 m, (Gaztelu zahar with 3 steps), is a mount located between the communes of Ayherre and Isturits.

Equipment

The commune has two elementary schools.

Personalities related to the commune

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