Lesponne

Lesponne is a village of the commune of Bagnères-with-Bigorre located in the of the same valley name, in High-Bigorre in the department of the Hautes-Pyrénées.

The valley of Lesponne

The valley of Lesponne is dug by the Adour de Lesponne with the foot of the northern slope of the Pic of the South of Bigorre. Directed the south-western North-East, it leads to the Vallée of Campan on the level of the village of Baudéan. One finds there a habitat dispersed.

Its northern slope is overhung by the Pic of Montaigu. The valley lodges on its southern heights:

the Blue Lake of Lesponne and the Green Lake close, with the foot of the peak of Ourdégouns ,
the Lake Peyrelade.

Villages, localities and variations, of south-west in the North-East:

Chiroulet, Trémesaouet, Park of Aumède, Park of Vidalit, Park of Gay, Park of Arribat, Park of Battle, Lesponne , Vialette, Esquerré, Park deth Couy, Entrade, Trap doors.

Adour de Lesponne

The Adour de Lesponne is a left affluent of the Adour, considered as one of the three branches constitutive of the river. It begins its race with the foot of the Hourquette d' Ouscouaou with a jump in the Pich of Ouscouaou , then file towards the North-East to join Adour with Beaudéan.

Principal affluents

(D) Lhécou /ljeku/, below the Blue Lake of Lesponne.
(D) the arriou of Ardalos, coming from the Lake Peyrelade.
(D) the arriou of Binaros, coming from the Lake Binaros.

Etymology

; Lesponne: One finds in the name of Lesponne the Aquitanique Lez “river” and the Aragonese ibon “lake of mountain”. ; Arribarat: according to will arribèra “flat”, “river”. ; Esquerré: “left-handed” (or rather “place in angle”), of the “left” Basque ezker . ; eth Couy: “peeled”, announces a deforested place. ; Chiroulet: “whistle” (cf Xirula) applied to the murmur of the brook. ; Lhécou: Gascon ljekɵ / lheca “large stone” of proto-Celtic a *likkā “stone punt” that one finds in Lecques (83) or in the Breton krommlec' H “stones in curve”. ; Pich of Ouscouaou: Gascon pich “Cascade”, a connected word with Jug ;

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