Escout
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| region | Nouvelle-Aquitaine | |
| Department | Pyrénées-Atlantiques | |
| Arrondissement | Oloron-Sainte-Marie | |
| Canton | Oloron-Sainte-Marie-2 | |
| Community association | Haut Bearn | |
| Coordinates | 43 ° 11 ′ N , 0 ° 33 ′ W | |
| height | 234-397 m | |
| surface | 9.52 km 2 | |
| Residents | 438 (January 1, 2017) | |
| Population density | 46 inhabitants / km 2 | |
| Post Code | 64870 | |
| INSEE code | 64209 | |
Escout ( Occitan : Escot ) is a French municipality with 438 inhabitants (as of January 1 2017) in the department of Pyrénées-Atlantiques in the region Nouvelle-Aquitaine (before 2016 Aquitaine ). It belongs to the Arrondissement of Oloron-Sainte-Marie and the Canton of Oloron-Sainte-Marie-2 (until 2015: Canton of Oloron-Sainte-Marie-Est ). The inhabitants are called Escoutois .
geography
Escout is about 14 kilometers southwest of Pau im Béarn . The Gave d'Ossau delimits the municipality in the southwest. Escout is surrounded by the neighboring communities Estialescq in the north and north-west, Lasseube in the north-east, Escou in the east, Herrère in the south and south-east, Oloron-Sainte-Marie in the west and south-west and Précilhon in the west.
The Pau – Canfranc railway runs through the municipality.
Population development
| year | 1962 | 1968 | 1975 | 1982 | 1990 | 1999 | 2006 | 2012 |
| Residents | 267 | 300 | 314 | 374 | 409 | 394 | 392 | 432 |
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Attractions
Parish partnership
There is a partnership with the Spanish municipality of Biscarrués in the province of Huesca (Aragon).
