Ayros-Arbouix

Ayros-Arbouix
Commune
View of the Mountains from Arbouix
Coat of arms
Location of Ayros-Arbouix
Ayros-Arbouix Ayros-Arbouix
Coordinates: 43°00′20″N 0°03′52″W
Country	France
Region	Occitania
Department	Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement	Argelès-Gazost
Canton	La Vallée des Gaves
Intercommunality	CC Pyrénées Vallées des Gaves
Government
• Mayor (2014-2020)	Régis Baudiffier
Area 1	2.72 km2 (1.05 sq mi)
Population  (2021)	345
• Density	130/km2 (330/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	65055 /65400
Elevation	418–880 m (1,371–2,887 ft) (avg. 600 m or 2,000 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

Ayros-Arbouix is a commune in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitanie region of south-western France.

The inhabitants of the commune are known as Aybouisois or Aybouisoises.

Geography

Ayros-Arbouix is part of the Pyrénées National Park and is located some 10 km south of Lourdes just east of Argelès-Gazost. Access to the commune is by road D821 from Lourdes which changes to the D913 at the commune border and passes down the western side of the commune continuing south to join the D921 near Villelongue. The D13 comes from Boô-Silhen in the north and passes through the centre of the commune before continuing south to Préchac. The D100 links the D821 to the D13 in the commune. Access to the village is by a country road east from the D13. Apart from the village there are the hamlets of Couture Bague south-west of the village and Arbouix in the south of the commune. The commune is mixed forest and farmland.

The Gave de Pau flows along the western border of the commune as it flows north to eventually join the Gave d'Oloron forming the Gaves Réunis at Peyrehorade. The Estau river flows west through the centre of the commune to join the Gave de Pau. The Ruisseau d'Aygueberden flows west though the south of the commune to join the Gave de Pau.

The Gave de Pau with the bridge from Ayros-Arbouix (left) to Argelès-Gazost

Heraldry

Arms of Ayros-Arbouix

These arms are faulty as they do not comply with the rule of tincture (Sable on Azure). Blazon: Azure, a fesse wavy enhanced of Argent, in chief the Arial letters AY to dexter and AR to sinister the same, in base a bow Sable stringed Gules and arrow notched Azure feathered and armed Or.

Administration

List of Successive Mayors

From	To	Name	Party	Position
1831	1831	Cazajous
1862	1862	Justin Nogue
1870	1870	Louis Cayrey
1965	1977	André Sempé
1977	1989	Louis Pédarribes
1989	2014	Jean Louis Pambrun
2014	2020	Régis Baudiffier

(Not all data is known)

Demography

In 2017 the commune had 314 inhabitants.

Historical population

Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1793 148 —     1800 193 +3.87% 1806 192 −0.09% 1821 212 +0.66% 1831 198 −0.68% 1836 222 +2.31% 1841 344 +9.15% 1846 380 +2.01% 1851 401 +1.08% 1856 422 +1.03% 1861 360 −3.13% 1866 365 +0.28% 1872 338 −1.27% 1876 337 −0.07% 1881 351 +0.82% 1886 317 −2.02% 1891 280 −2.45% 1896 252 −2.09%	Year Pop. ±% p.a. 1901 266 +1.09% 1906 262 −0.30% 1911 232 −2.40% 1921 223 −0.39% 1926 206 −1.57% 1931 204 −0.19% 1936 192 −1.21% 1946 206 +0.71% 1954 211 +0.30% 1962 220 +0.52% 1968 228 +0.60% 1975 235 +0.43% 1982 256 +1.23% 1990 230 −1.33% 1999 231 +0.05% 2007 316 +3.99% 2012 278 −2.53% 2017 314 +2.47%
Source: EHESS and INSEE

The Gave de Pau from the bridge

Sports

Arbouix village

The village has a green where Quilles de Neuf (Nine Bowls) is played.

See also

• Communes of the Hautes-Pyrénées department

External links

• Ayros-Arbouix on Lion1906
• Ayros-Arbouix on Géoportail, National Geographic Institute (IGN) website (in French)
• Airos and Arbouix on the 1750 Cassini Map