Montaut, Pyrénées-Atlantiques

{{Expand French|topic=geo|date=December 2008|Montaut (Pyrénées-Atlantiques)}}

{{Infobox French commune

|name = Montaut

|commune status = Commune

|arrondissement = Pau

|canton = Vallées de l'Ousse et du Lagoin

|INSEE = 64400

|postal code = 64800

|mayor = Alain Caperet{{cite web|title=Répertoire national des élus: les maires|url=https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/r/2876a346-d50c-4911-934e-19ee07b0e503|publisher=data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises|date=4 May 2022|language=fr}}

|term = 2020–2026

|intercommunality =

|coordinates = {{coord|43.13|-0.19|format=dms|display=inline,title}}

|elevation m = 315

|elevation min m = 278

|elevation max m = 553

|area km2 = 15.41

|population = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_total}}

|population date = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_as_of}}

|population footnotes = {{France metadata Wikidata|population_footnotes}}

}}

Montaut ({{IPA|fr|mɔ̃to}}) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.[https://www.insee.fr/fr/metadonnees/geographie/commune/64400-montaut INSEE commune file]

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 937 and Line 0535 of the regional buses in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques.{{in lang|fr}} {{cite web|title=Horaires des lignes du réseau Cars Régionaux 64 - Pyrénées Atlantiques|url=https://modalis.fr/fr/plan-du-site/reseau/Site-du-64--Pyrenees-Atlantiques%29/PYRENEES_ATLANTIQUES:1|website=modalis.fr|access-date=15 September 2020}} Montaut-Bétharram station has rail connections to Tarbes, Pau, Bordeaux and Bayonne.

=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 (12835Paul Raymond (archiviste)|Paul Raymond, Dictionnaire topographique Béarn-Pays basque and the 14th century respectively, titles of BéarnTitres de la vicomté de Béarn - Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques) and Montaud (15355, reformation of Béarn{{cite book |title=Réformation de Béarn |publisher=Archives départementales des Pyrénées-Atlantiques |work=manuscrits du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle }}).

Its Bearnese name is Montaut{{cite web|title=Toponymie des communes béarnaises selon la graphie classique|url=http://www.ostaubearnes.fr/_pdf/topo_siti.pdf|author=Ostau Bearnes|access-date=26 January 2019}}. or Mountaut.{{cite web|title=Toponymie des communes béarnaises selon la graphie moderne|url=https://www.institut-bearnaisgascon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/Dossier_signaletique_IBG_25092008.pdf|author=Institut béarnais et gascon|access-date=26 January 2019}}.

History

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