Barraute-Camu

Barraute-Camu
Commune
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Canton	Orthez et Terres des Gaves et du Sel
Intercommunality	Béarn des Gaves
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Jean Agoutborde
Area1	3.94 km2 (1.52 sq mi)
Population (Jan. 2018)2
INSEE/Postal code	64096 / 64390
Elevation	53–145 m (174–476 ft) (avg. 81 m or 266 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Barraute-Camu (French pronunciation: ​[baʁot kamy]; Occitan: Berrauta e Camun) is a commune of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of south-western France.

Geography

Barraute-Camu is located 2 km east by south-east of Sauveterre-de-Béarn and 4 km west by north-west of Montfort. Access to the commune is by the D936 highway from Abitain in the west which passes through the heart of the commune just south of the village and continues east to Araujuzon. The commune is almost all farmland except for some forest along the river and along the southern border.

The Gave d'Oloron forms the northern border of the commune as it flows west to join the Gave de Pau at Peyrehorade to become the Gaves Réunis. The Ruisseau de Lapeyrère rises in the commune and flows north to join the Gave d'Oloron.

Places and Hamlets

• La Cabé
• Camu
• Campagne de Camu
• Capulet
• Crescent
• Houch
• Lageyre
• Lahitau
• Lasbignasses
• Peyret
• Théas

Toponymy

The commune name in Occitan Gascon is Berrauta-Camun.

Michel Grosclaude said that the name comes from the basque berro: Broussailles and the collective suffix '-eta meaning "where there are no bushes" He also stated that Camu most likely comes from the Gascon kamy, the variant kamu meaning "fertile ground next to the river".

The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.

Name	Spelling	Date	Source	Page	Origin	Description
Barraute	Berraute	1150	Grosclaude		Sord	Village
	Berraute	1385	Raymond	21	Census
	Sent Sapriaa de Berraute	1413	Raymond	21	Notaries
	Berauta	1548	Raymond	21	Reformation
	Beraute	1687	Raymond	21	Reformation
	Barraute	1750	Cassini		Cassini 1750
	Baraulte	1801	Ldh/EHESS/Cassini
	Barrante	1801	Ldh/EHESS/Cassini
Camu	Camoo	1385	Raymond	40	Census	Village
	Camuu	1385	Raymond	40	Census
	Camur en Bearn	1477	Raymond	40	Ohix
Les Ahitaux	Les Ahitaux	1863	Raymond	3		Hamlet

Sources:

• Grosclaude: Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, 2006
• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table.
• Cassini: 1750 Cassini Map
• Ldh/EHESS/Cassini: Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Barraute-Camu, EHESS.

Origins:

• Sorde: Cartulary of Sorde
• Census: Census of Béarn
• Notaries: Notaries of Navarrenx
• Reformation: Reformation of Béarn
• Ohix: Contracts retained by Ohix, Notary of Soule

History

Barraute appears as Barraute on the 1750 Cassini Map and the same on the 1790 version.

Camu appears as Camu on the 1750 Cassini Map and does not appear on the 1790 version.

Paul Raymond noted on page 21 and 40 of his 1863 dictionary that in 1385 Barraute had 24 fires and Camu 11. Barraute was part of the bailiwick of Navarrenx and Camu in that of Sauveterre.

The communes of Barraute and Camu were merged on 14 June 1841.

Administration

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List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name
1995	2020	Jean Cazenave
2020	2026	Jean Agoutborde

Inter-communality

The commune is part of five inter-communal structures:

• the inter-communal centre for social action of Community of communes of Béarn des Gaves;
• the Communauté de communes du Béarn des Gaves;
• the Energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
• the inter-communal association for management of drinking water from the Saleys and the Gaves;
• the inter-communal association of Gaves and Saleys

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 174 inhabitants.

Historical population
Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 194 —     1800 190 −0.30% 1806 305 +8.21% 1821 216 −2.27% 1831 216 +0.00% 1836 249 +2.88% 1841 418 +10.92% 1846 404 −0.68% 1851 403 −0.05% 1856 371 −1.64% 1861 359 −0.66% 1866 337 −1.26% 1872 335 −0.10% 1876 335 +0.00% 1881 322 −0.79% 1886 308 −0.89% 1891 329 +1.33% 1896 289 −2.56%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 304 +1.02% 1906 318 +0.90% 1911 294 −1.56% 1921 258 −1.30% 1926 256 −0.16% 1931 271 +1.15% 1936 246 −1.92% 1946 245 −0.04% 1954 222 −1.22% 1962 213 −0.52% 1968 210 −0.24% 1975 187 −1.64% 1982 186 −0.08% 1990 160 −1.86% 1999 164 +0.27% 2007 150 −1.11% 2012 161 +1.43% 2017 174 +1.57%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

Economy

The main activity is agricultural. The commune is part of the Appellation d'origine contrôlée of Ossau-iraty

Culture and heritage

Religious heritage

The Church of Saint Cyprien and Saint Justine (Middle Ages) is registered as an historical monument. It was restored in the 19th century.

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department