Nabas

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

Its inhabitants is called Nabasars.

Geography

Hydrography

The grounds of the commune are sprinkled by the Saison (affluent of the Gave d' Oloron) and by its tributaries, the brooks Laxubie (11,3 km), of Larrunduigt and Bédat.
The brook Hourquet, tributary of the brook Lafaure (16,6 km), another affluent of the Season, also crosses the territory of the commune.

Localities and hamlets

Locality Curquou

Communes bordering

Espiute and Gestas in north
Aroue-Ithorots-Olhaïby in the west
Lichos in the south
Rivehaute and Charre in the east.

Toponymy

The toponym Nabas appears in the forms Navars (XIe century, according to Pierre de Marca), Navas (1376, censier of Béarn), the nau of Nabas (vat over the Season, 1542, reformation of Béarn), Nabaas and the St. Lawrence de Nabas (respectively 1610 and 1656, insinuations of the diocese of Oloron).

History

Paul Raymond note which the commune counted a laic abbey, vassal of the Viscount of Béarn.
The Baronnie of Nabas, going back to 1646, included/understood Nabas and Bisqueis (hamlet of Charre).

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to nine inter-commune structures:

SIVOM of the canton of Navarrenx
mixed trade-union of the Country of Gaves
Bil mixed trade-union Your Garbi
intercommunity association of Gaves and Saleys
syndicar mixed forester of the oak groves of the Basque valleys and inhabitants of Béarn
trade union of the perception of Navarrenx
trade union AEP of Rivehaute- Nabas - Charre - Gestas
trade union AEP of the Country of Drunk
departmental trade union of electrification.

Demography

2005: provisional population of INSEE.

Economy

The activity is mainly agricultural (breeding, pastures, mixed-farming, forestry development).

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Protohistoric fortifications are visible on the territory of the commune with the Curquou locality.

Religious heritage

The St. Lawrence church dates from the XIXe century.

Environmental inheritance

Equipment

Personalities related to the commune

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