Ousse of Wood

Etymology

The name Ousse , which it shares with its neighbor of Pau, is a typical topic Hydronymique of the surface Aquitanique. The historical name of the river, Orsa (1394) /urs ɵ/, attests that the Ousse were old Ourse) (cf Ossau). The alternative Oussère is a hypocoristic Gascon in - will èra (Latin - ella ); the pronunciation Aucèra presents the transformation occitane or > with the (nonetymological). One finds Ousse like affluent of the Canal of Alaric, the Gers, the pond of Aureilhan, and a Oussère like affluent of the Ousse paloise.

The river left its name to the bordering commune of Aussevielle ( town of Ousse in Gascon). A district of Pau built on its left bank was named the Ousse of Wood .

Geography

Oussère is born with Limendous, runs out towards the west while passing to the north of Pau - where it takes the name of Ousse of Wood - to join the gave of Pau upstream of Denguin. Ousse of Wood drains the south of the moor of the Bridge-Length which occupies one of the dry valleys of the gave of Pau, resulting from the large Pyrenean glacier of the system of Lourdes (Mindel) and abandoned to the Riss, when the course of the gave was deviated towards the south (valley of the Ousse.).
Oussère crosses initially a zone of formerly marshy moors, well drained now, forming in the east of Pau an increasingly urbanized agricultural zone. Ousse of Wood crosses then the urban areas of the north of Pau and Lescar, then joined the gave while crossing territories still used for agriculture with Poey-with-Lescar and Aussevielle.

Departments and crossed communes

Yrénées-Atlantiques: Soumoulou, Limendous, Andoins, Nousty, Artigueloutan, Sendets, Lée, Idron, Pau, Lons, Lescar, Poey-with-Lescar and Aussevielle.

Principal affluents

In Sendets, brook of Courrège, 2.4 km
At the entry on the territory of Lescar, the channel of Lescourre derives part of water from Ousse of Wood towards the plain of the gave. This old channel, feeding the brook of Lescourre, was intended for the requirements out of water for the town of Lescar.
Close to its mouth, Ousse of Wood receives, on its left bank, the water of the channel of the mill , 10.8 km, supplied with various drainages of the plain of Lons and the water not used of the channel and the brook of Lescourre.

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