Mauléon-Licharre

Mauléon-Licharre
Main square, Mauléon
Mauléon-Licharre
Location within Aquitaine region Mauléon-Licharre
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Canton	Mauléon-Licharre
Intercommunality	Soule-Xiberoa
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Denis Barbé-Labarthe
Area1	13 km2 (5 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	2,488
• Density	190/km2 (500/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	64371 / 64130
Elevation	133–521 m (436–1,709 ft) (avg. 214 m or 702 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Mauléon-Licharre (Basque: Maule-Lextarre) or simply Mauléon is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in southwestern France.

It is the capital of the Soule (Zuberoa) historical Basque province.

It is home to the canvas shoe, the espadrille and to etorki cheese.

Demographics

Date of Population

1793 1800 1806 1820 1821 1831 1836 1841 1846 1851 862 985 1007 - 1054 1145 1259 1577 1654 1600

1856 1861 1866 1872 1876 1881 1886 1891 1896 1475 1708 1876 1743 2108 2409 2251 2575 2651

1901 1906 1911 1921 1926 1931 1936 1946 1954 3368 4045 4827 4220 4316 4069 4193 4567 4619

1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2004 - - 4679 4500 4239 4099 3533 3347 - - - For the census of 1962 to 1999 the official population corresponds with the population without duplicates according to the INSEE.

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

References

• INSEE commune file

External links

• MAULE-LEXTARRE in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa) (in Spanish)
• Mauleon and the Medieval History of Navarre