Montaut, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

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Montaut
Commune
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Coordinates: 43°08′N 0°11′W / 43.13°N 0.19°W / 43.13; -0.19Coordinates: 43°08′N 0°11′W / 43.13°N 0.19°W / 43.13; -0.19
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Vallées de l'Ousse et du Lagoin
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Alain Caperet[1]
Area 1	15.41 km2 (5.95 sq mi)
Population  (Jan. 2018)[2]	1,113
• Density	72/km2 (190/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64400 /64800
Elevation	278–553 m (912–1,814 ft) (avg. 315 m or 1,033 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Montaut is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

Geography[]

Location[]

Montaut is situated at the east of the department, 25 km south-east of Pau. The commune is bordering the department of Hautes-Pyrénées.

Access[]

The commune is served by departmental roads 212, 812 and a national road, as well as by the SNCF Line Toulouse-Bayonne and Line 8 of the departmental buses of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.^[3]

Hydrography[]

The lands of the commune are watered by the Gave of Pau, tributary of the Adour, and by its tributaries, the stream of Siot (fed on Montaut by the streams of the Uchas and Bignes) and the Mouscle, itself joined on the commune by the stream, the Mousclère.

Places and Hamlets[]

• Annette
• Loustau
• Pasquine
• Village
• Hameau d'en Bas
• Hameau d'en Haut
• Content
• Sarusse

Toponymy[]

The toponym Montaut appears in the forms Mont-Altus and the bastide of Montaut (12835^[4] and the 14th century respectively, titles of Béarn^[5]) and Montaud (15355,^[4] reformation of Béarn^[6]).

Its Bearnese name is Montaut^[7] or Mountaut.^[8]

History[]

Montaut is a former bastide founded in 1327^[4] by Marguerite de Moncade, the grandmother of Gaston III de Foix-Béarn. The original Bastidian plan still includes the remains of its past.

See also[]

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

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References[]

• INSEE commune file

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