See also: Laas
Laàs 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, affluent of the
Gave of Pau, and by its tributaries, the arriou Tort and the Barindein brooks, Arrebious and of Mignou.
Localities and hamlets
Communes bordering
Toponymy
The toponym
Laàs is mentioned in 1205 (titles of Bérérenx), and appears in the forms
Feels-Bertemiu Laas and
Las (1384, notaries of
Navarrenx),
the nau of Laas (1538, reformation of Béarn) and
Làas (1863, topographic dictionary Basque Béarn-Country).
History
Paul Raymond note that in 1385, Laàs counted 20 fires and depended on the Bailliage of Navarrenx.
Administration
Intercommunality
The common one belongs to euf inter-commune structures:
- the Community of communes of Sauveterre-to-Béarn
- SIVOM of the canton of Navarrenx
- trade union of the Country of Gaves and Lausset
- center itercommunal of social action of Sauveterre-to-Béarn
- intercommunity association of the gaves of Oloron and Mauléon
- intercommunity association of the gaves and Saleys
- Bil mixed trade-union Your Garbi
- trade union AEP of Navarrenx
- departmental trade union of electrification.
Demography
2004: provisional population of INSEE.
Economy
The activity is primarily agricultural.
Culture and inheritance
Civil inheritance
Religious heritage
The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre church dates from the XIXe century.
Environmental inheritance
Equipment
Personalities related to the commune