Menditte

See also: Menditte (homonymy)

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

Its name Basque is Mendikota .

Geography

Hydrography

The grounds of the commune are sprinkled by the Saison, which is thrown in the Gave d' Oloron and by its affluents, Ibarra Erreka, the brook of Ordoby and Espileko erreka.
The Bassagaits brook, which is thrown in the Lausset (affluent of the gave of Oloron), also crosses the commune.

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

Toponymy

The toponym Menditte appears in the forms Mendite and Contemplated (respectively 1454 and 1471, chapter of Bayonne).

History

Administration

Intercommunality

Menditte belongs to eight inter-commune structures:
  • the Community of communes of Drunk-Xiberoa
  • trade union for the support for the Basque culture
  • teaching trade union of regrouping of Menditte - Idaux-Mendy
  • intercommunity association of the gaves of Oloron and Mauléon
  • intercommunity association for the construction and the operation of THESE of Mauléon
  • trade union AEP of the Country of Drunk
  • trade union of cleansing of the Country of Drunk
  • departmental trade union of electrification.

Demography

Economy

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

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Religious heritage

The church of the Assumption-of-the-Happy-Virgin-Marie was built at the XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries and was restored at the end of the XIXe century.

Environmental inheritance

Equipment

The commune has an elementary school.

Personalities related to the commune

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