Lichos

Lichos 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 Saison, affluent of the Gave d' Oloron, and by its tributary, the brook Borlaas.

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Nabas in north
Charre in the east
Aroue-Ithorots-Olhaïby in the west
Charritte-with-Low in south-west

Toponymy

The toponym Lichos appears in the forms Lesxos (1376, military watch of Béarn), Lixos (1385, censier of Béarn) and Lexos (1391, notaries of Navarrenx).

History

Paul Raymond note that in 1385 Lichos and Haute, its appendix, 20 fires counted and depended on the Bailliage of Sauveterre.
In XVIe century, Lichos, Charre and Haute formed only one commune.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to eight inter-commune structures:

mixed trade-union of the Country of Gaves
Bil mixed trade-union Your Garbi
teaching trade union of regrouping of Charitte-in-Low and of Lichos
intercommunity association for the construction and the operation of THESE of Mauléon
trade union of the perception of Navarrenx
trade union AEP of the Country of Drunk
trade union of cleansing of the Season
departmental trade union of electrification.

Demography

Economy

The activity is mainly agricultural (breeding and pastures).

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Religious heritage

Environmental inheritance

Equipment

Personalities related to the commune

holy Grat, first bishop of Oloron.

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