Okabe (mountain)

Mount Okabe
Mount Okabe
	Harrespil and summit
Highest point
Elevation	1,456 m (4,777 ft)
Coordinates	43°02′04″N 01°06′25″W / 43.03444°N 1.10694°W
Geography
	Mount Okabe Aquitaine, France
Département	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Commune	Estérençuby
Parent range	Pyrenees

Okabe or Occabe, is a 1,456 m (4,777 ft) high Pyrenean summit in the Basse-Navarre province of the Basque country in France.

Name

Okʰabe is a hydronym from a spring located on the southern slope.^{[citation needed]}

Topography

Mount Okabe lies on the pyrenean watershed. Cromlechs called harrespils lie on the western slope of the massif.

26 cromlechs or harrespils have been found on the Okabe plateau.^[1] Perhaps the area of an ancient pastoral passage, no written record provides any explanation for the presence of these prehistorical or protohistoric relics. Researchers have found pavings and remains of charcoal and ash in the middle of the rings. Corps cremation and funerary rituels suggest it was a necropole.^[2]

Access

Possible from Estérençuby or the Irati Forest. From Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, take the col d'Iraty road, go past la chapelle Saint-Sauveur, go up to the summit of the col de Burdincurutcheta, go down to the plateau d'Iraty and take the D301 road to the col de Sourzay summit. Stop at the house (the only one in 2011). Mount Okabe lies south-east; then about an hour's walk.

Gallery

References

^ Iraty et ses cromlechs (in French)
^ "Jacques Blot, Les cromlechs d'Errozate et d'Okabe (Basse Navarre)" (PDF)., Munibe, Sociedad de Ciencias ARANZADI, San Sebastián, année 24, numéros 1-2, 1977, pages 77-96 (in French)

[1] Iraty et ses cromlechs (in French)

[2] "Jacques Blot, Les cromlechs d'Errozate et d'Okabe (Basse Navarre)" (PDF)., Munibe, Sociedad de Ciencias ARANZADI, San Sebastián, année 24, numéros 1-2, 1977, pages 77-96 (in French)

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