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Otano, Navarre

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Otano
Locality
Otano is located in Navarre
Otano
Otano
Otano is located in Spain
Otano
Otano
Coordinates: 42°42′49″N 1°34′6″W / 42.71361°N 1.56833°W / 42.71361; -1.56833[1]
Country Spain
Community Navarre
ProvinceNavarre
MunicipalityNoáin
Elevation
517 m (1,696 ft)
Population
 • Total7

Otano, known in Basque as Otao, is a hamlet located in the municipality of Noáin, in Navarre province, Spain. As of 2020, it has a population of 7.[2]

Geography

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Otano is located 20km south-southeast of Pamplona, in the valley of the river Elorz on the slopes of Mount Alaiz.[3]

History

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Otano had a population of 64 in 1802.[4] It stands on the pilgrimage route the Camino de Santiago, which forms its main street. The village belonged in the Middle Ages to the Knights Hospitaller.[3] Although reduced in population it is a parish, of which the 16th-century church is dedicated either to San Salvador or to the Ascension.[4][3] There are also elements of a Romanesque bridge incorporated into the present one over the river Elorz.[3]

Martín Javier Mina y Larrea was born in the hamlet in 1789.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Mapa de Otano, Noáin, Navarra, España
  2. ^ "Nomenclátor: Población del Padrón Continuo por Unidad Poblacional" (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Estadística (España). Retrieved 3 December 2021.
  3. ^ a b c d The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook, Gitlitz and Davidson, 2000
  4. ^ a b Diccionario Geográfico-Histórico de España, publ. for the Real Academia de la Historia 1802, Seccion I, vol.1, p. 212
  5. ^ Spanish Guerrillas in the Peninsular War 1808-1814, Renè Chartrand, Osprey Publishing. London, 2004