Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast
Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast () is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. The people of the commune are known as Aiziriztar. Geography. Location. The commune is part of the Mixe country in the French Basque Country of Lower Navarre. It is located immediately north of Saint-Palais. Highway D29 runs north from Saint-Palais through the entire commune from south to north and passing through the town. The D529 Highway runs east from the commune to its junction with Highway D134. Highway D933 enters the commune in the southeast and  runs north along the eastern side of the commune to exit in the north. Hydrography. The commune is located in the Drainage basin of the Adour and is watered by the Bidouze, a tributary of the Adour, and it has its tributaries: the Joyeuse and the Eyherachar and Recalde streams. Toponymy. The commune's name in Basque is "Aiziritze-Gamue-Zohazti". For "Aïcirits", Jean-Baptiste Orpustan proposed the Basque etymology "aitz", meaning "high" and "aratze", meaning "fern patch", giving "high fern patch" or "rocky fern patch". He also indicated that "Suhast" may come from "zuhaztoi", meaning "plantation of trees". The  inhabitants of Camou are known as "Gamuar" and the inhabitants of Suhast are known as "Zohaztiar". The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune. Sources: Origins: History. The commune Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast was formed in 1972 by the merger of the former communes Aïcirits and Camou-Mixe-Suhast. Between 1972 and 1984, this commune was referred to as "Aïcirits". The commune Camou-Mixe-Suhast was formed in 1842 by the merger of the communes Suhast and Camou-Mixe. Administration. List of Successive Mayors of Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast Administrative Associations. The commune is  linked to the following administrative bodies (non exhaustive list): Judicial Districts. The town depends on the district court of Bayonne, the High Court of Bayonne and the Court of Appeal of Pau. Inter-communality. The commune belongs to six inter-communal structures: Population. Data before 1972 in the table and graph below refer to the old commune Aïcirits, before the merger with Camou-Mixe-Suhast. Economy. Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast is classified by the INSEE as part of the urban area ("unité urbaine") of Saint-Palais, and of the employment area of Oloron-Sainte-Marie. The registered office of the Lur  Berri company, a large food cooperative group, is located in Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast. The town is part of the designated zone of Ossau-iraty. It also hosts other companies in the agri-food sector as one of the first fifty two communes of the department: Culture and heritage. Languages. According to the "Map of the Seven Basque Provinces" published in 1863 by Prince Louis-Lucien Bonaparte, the dialect of Basque spoken in Aicirits-Camou-Suhast is eastern low Navarrese. The village has a cave at Camou (the "grotto Oltzibarre") closely linked to the Basque legend of Txahalgorri, the young red  bull.