Mauléon-Licharre

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

Mauléon-Licharre Maule-Lextarre
Commune
Main square, Mauléon
Coat of arms
Location of Mauléon-Licharre
Mauléon-Licharre Mauléon-Licharre
Coordinates: 43°13′31″N 0°53′09″W
Country	France
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Oloron-Sainte-Marie
Canton	Montagne Basque
Intercommunality	CA Pays Basque
Government
• Mayor (2020–2026)	Louis Labadot[1]
Area ^1	13 km^2 (5 sq mi)
Population  (2017-01-01)[2]	2,954
• Density	230/km^2 (590/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+01:00 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+02:00 (CEST)
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 km^2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries.

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

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

Demographics

Mauléon in 1843 by Eugène de Malbos.

Historical population

Year	Pop.	±% p.a.
1793	862	—
1800	985	+1.92%
1806	1,007	+0.37%
1821	1,054	+0.30%
1831	1,145	+0.83%
1836	1,259	+1.92%
1841	1,577	+4.61%
1846	1,654	+0.96%
1851	1,600	−0.66%
1856	1,475	−1.61%
1861	1,708	+2.98%
1866	1,876	+1.89%
1872	1,743	−1.22%
1876	2,108	+4.87%
1881	2,409	+2.71%
1886	2,251	−1.35%
1891	2,575	+2.73%
1896	2,651	+0.58%
1901	3,368	+4.90%
1906	4,045	+3.73%
1911	4,827	+3.60%
1921	4,220	−1.33%
1926	4,316	+0.45%
1931	4,069	−1.17%
1936	4,193	+0.60%
1946	4,567	+0.86%
1954	4,619	+0.14%
1962	4,679	+0.16%
1968	4,500	−0.65%
1975	4,239	−0.85%
1982	4,099	−0.48%
1990	3,533	−1.84%
1999	3,347	−0.60%
2007	3,228	−0.45%
2012	3,145	−0.52%
2017	2,954	−1.25%
Source: EHESS[3] and INSEE[4]

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

References

• INSEE commune file

1. "Répertoire national des élus: les maires". data.gouv.fr, Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises (in French). 2 December 2020. Retrieved 7 December 2020.
2. "Populations légales 2017". INSEE. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
3. Des villages de Cassini aux communes d'aujourd'hui: Commune data sheet Mauléon-Licharre, EHESS. (in French)
4. Population en historique depuis 1968, INSEE

External links

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