Arancou

Arancou is a common French, located in the department of the Yrénées-Atlantiques and the area Aquitaine.
Its Basque name is Erango .

Geography

Hydrography

The commune is crossed by an affluent of the Bidouze, the brook the Lauhirasse, and a tributary of the Gave of Pau, the brook the Baniou.

Localities and hamlets

Chabay

Communes bordering

Cam in the North-West
Labastide-Villefranche in the east
Bergouey-Viellenave in south-west.

Toponymy

The toponym Arancou appears in the forms Arancoey ), and Aranco (1584, alienations of the diocese of Dax). It comes from arangoien , valley top.

History

January 1st, 1973, the three communes of Arancou, Bergouey and Viellenave-on-Bidouze amalgamated. November 15th, 1977, Arancou became again independent whereas Bergouey and Viellenave remained associated.

Administration

Intercommunality

The commune belongs to four inter-commune structures:

the Community of communes of the Country of Bidache
Adour Trade union - Ursuia of noncollective cleansing
Trade union AEP of Arancou - Bergouey-Viellenave - Bidache - Labastide-Villefranche
departmental Trade union of electrification.

Demography

2004: provisional population of INSEE.

Economy

The activity is mainly agricole.
A limestone quarry remains on the commune. It fed until 1993 the cement factory of Cements of Adour located at Boucau, by barges descending Bidouze then Adour.

Culture and inheritance

Civil inheritance

Firm and houses of XVIIe and XVIIIe centuries
House of the XVIIIe century to the Chabay locality;
Well, laundrette, fountain of Garay

Religious heritage

The church of the Assumption-of-the-Happy-Virgin-Marie of XIIIe century, classified historic building, located on the ways of Saint-Jacques-of-Compostelle (way of Turns) offers a pretty Gothic gate. A source the cross-piece underground. Downwards, one can discover a lavoir.
there The church conceals a Virgin with the Child known as Our-Lady-in Arancou, a Stèle discoïdale (coming from Labets-Biscay) and various furniture registered with the inventory of the ministry for the Culture (gate vault; stoup; cross). It also has a classified canopy.

Equipment

Personalities related to the commune

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