Eaux-Bonnes
Commune
Town Hall
Town Hall
Coat of arms of Eaux-Bonnes
Coat of arms
Location of Eaux-Bonnes
Eaux-Bonnes is located in France
Eaux-Bonnes
Eaux-Bonnes
Eaux-Bonnes is located in Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Eaux-Bonnes
Eaux-Bonnes
Coordinates: 42°58′26″N 0°23′27″W / 42.9739°N 0.3908°W / 42.9739; -0.3908
CountryFrance
RegionNouvelle-Aquitaine
DepartmentPyrénées-Atlantiques
ArrondissementOloron-Sainte-Marie
CantonOloron-Sainte-Marie-2
IntercommunalityVallée d'Ossau
Government
 • Mayor (2020–2026) Jean-Luc Braud[1]
Area
1
38.52 km2 (14.87 sq mi)
Population
 (Jan. 2021)[2]
190
 • Density4.9/km2 (13/sq mi)
Demonym(s)Eaux-Bonnais, Eaux-Bonnaises
Time zoneUTC+01:00 (CET)
 • Summer (DST)UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code
64204 /64440
Elevation520–2,619 m (1,706–8,593 ft)
(avg. 750 m or 2,460 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Eaux-Bonnes (French: [o bɔn], "good waters"; Occitan: Aigas Bonas) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

Description

Eaux-Bonnes is close to the small town of Laruns. It is situated at a height of 2,460 feet (750 m) at the entrance of a fine gorge, overlooking the confluence of two rivers. The village's waters were first documented in the middle of the 14th century. The Eaux-Chaudes spa is 5 miles (8.0 km) south-west of Eaux-Bonnes, and there is fine mountain scenery in the neighbourhood of both places, the Pic de Ger near Eaux-Bonnes.[3]

The climate which characterizes the town is of "mountain climate", according to the typology of climates of France which then has eight major types of climates in metropolitan France.[4]

Gourette is a winter sports resort located in the commune on the high mountain pass Col d'Aubisque.

History

Eaux-Bonnes circa 1886
Eaux-Bonnes in 1843, by Eugène de Malbos.

The historian Auguste Lorieux (1796–1842) died in Eaux-Bonnes.

Nearby to the north-west on the Surcou road, is the impressive villa Cockade, the construction of which is detailed in Dornford Yates's novel The House That Berry Built.

Population

Historical population
YearPop.±% p.a.
1793 206—    
1800 152−4.25%
1806 206+5.20%
1821 259+1.54%
1831 257−0.08%
1836 269+0.92%
1841 470+11.81%
1846 477+0.30%
1851 366−5.16%
1856 404+2.00%
1861 762+13.53%
1866 917+3.77%
1872 836−1.53%
1876 753−2.58%
1881 828+1.92%
1886 874+1.09%
1891 812−1.46%
1896 775−0.93%
YearPop.±% p.a.
1901 768−0.18%
1906 684−2.29%
1911 622−1.88%
1921 485−2.46%
1926 455−1.27%
1931 453−0.09%
1936 462+0.39%
1946 510+0.99%
1954 558+1.13%
1962 392−4.32%
1968 501+4.17%
1975 421−2.45%
1982 526+3.23%
1990 536+0.24%
1999 435−2.29%
2009 418−0.40%
2014 340−4.05%
2020 191−9.16%
Source: EHESS (1793-1999)[5] and INSEE[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Répertoire national des élus: les maires" (in French). data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises. 13 September 2022.
  2. ↑ "Populations légales 2021". The National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. 28 December 2023.
  3. ↑ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Eaux-Bonnes". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 8 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 839–840.
  4. ↑ Joly, Daniel; Brossard, Thierry; Cardot, Hervé; Cavailhes, Jean; Hilal, Mohamed; Wavresky, Pierre (18 June 2010). "Les types de climats en France, une construction spatiale". Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography. doi:10.4000/cybergeo.23155.
  5. ↑ Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Eaux-Bonnes, EHESS (in French).
  6. ↑ Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE
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