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

Its name inhabitant of Béarn is Feels-Goen .

Its inhabitants is called Saint-Goinars.

Geography

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by an affluent of the Gave d' Oloron, the brook the Joos (and by the tributary of this last, the Espondics brook) and by an affluent of the Lausset, the brook Ibarle.

Localities and hamlets

Communes bordering

• Geüs-in Oloron in north
• Saucède in the North-East
• Barcus in the west
• Géronce in the south.

Toponymy

The toponym Saint-Goin appears in the forms Feels-Goenh (1402, censier of Béarn), Sengoenh , Sangoenh and Sanct-Guoenh (respectively 1536,1538 and 1546, reformation of Béarn) and Feels-Jayme Feels-Goenh (1608, insinuations of the diocese of Oloron).

History

Paul Raymond note that in 1385 Geüs and Saint-Goin formed only one parish which depended on the Bailliage of Oloron and counted 29 fires.

Administration

Intercommunality

The common one belongs to four inter-commune structures:

• the Community of communes of Josbaig
• trade union AEP of the Green
• departmental trade union of electrification
• forest mixed trade-union of the oak groves of the Basque valleys and inhabitants of Béarn

Demography

Economy

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

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Religious heritage

Environmental inheritance

Equipment

The commune has a nursery school.

Personalities related to the commune

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