Barraute-Camu
Commune
Location of Barraute-Camu
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Coordinates: 43°23′19″N 0°53′42″W / 43.3886°N 0.895°W / 43.3886; -0.895
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
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[1]
Area 1	3.94 km2 (1.52 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[2]	183
• Density	46/km2 (120/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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.

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.^[3]

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.^[4][5]

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.^[4][5]

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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".^[6]

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

Sources:

• Grosclaude: Toponymic Dictionary of communes, Béarn, 2006 (in French)^[6]
• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. (in French)^[7]
• Cassini: 1750 Cassini Map^[8]
• Ldh/EHESS/Cassini: Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Barraute-Camu, EHESS (in French).

Origins:

• Sorde: Cartulary of Sorde^[9]
• Census: Census of Béarn^[10]
• Notaries: Notaries of Navarrenx^[11]
• Reformation: Reformation of Béarn^[12]
• Ohix: Contracts retained by Ohix, Notary of Soule^[13]

Barraute appears as Barraute on the 1750 Cassini Map^[8] and the same on the 1790 version.^[14]

Camu appears as Camu on the 1750 Cassini Map^[8] and does not appear on the 1790 version.^[14]

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.^[7]

The communes of Barraute and Camu were merged on 14 June 1841.^[7]

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List of Successive Mayors^[15]

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

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%
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Source: EHESS[16] and INSEE[17]

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

The Church of Saint Cyprien and Saint Justine (Middle Ages) is registered as an historical monument.^[18] It was restored in the 19th century.

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

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