Tibiran-Jaunac

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Tibiran-Jaunac
Tibiran e Jaunac
Coat of arms of Tibiran-Jaunac
Tibiran-Jaunac (France)
Tibiran-Jaunac
region Occitania
Department Hautes-Pyrénées
Arrondissement Bagneres-de-Bigorre
Canton La Vallée de la Barousse
Community association Neste Barousse
Coordinates 43 ° 3 '  N , 0 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 43 ° 3 '  N , 0 ° 33'  E
height 415-783 m
surface 6.38 km 2
Residents 312 (January 1, 2017)
Population density 49 inhabitants / km 2
Post Code 65150
INSEE code

Tibiran-Jaunac ( Occitan : Tibiran e Jaunac ) is a French commune with 312 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2017) in the Hautes-Pyrénées department in the Occitania region ; it belongs to the arrondissement of Bagnères-de-Bigorre and the canton of La Vallée de la Barousse (until 2015: canton of Saint-Laurent-de-Neste ). The inhabitants are called Tibirannais-Jaunacais / Tibirannaises-Jaunacaises .

geography

Tibiran-Jaunac is located around 43 kilometers southeast of the city of Tarbes in the east of the Hautes-Pyrénées department on the border with the Haute-Garonne department. The community consists of the villages of Jaunac and Tibiran and several scattered settlements. The Garonne forms a natural eastern municipal boundary in parts. Large areas are wooded. The highest point in the municipality is Le Picon in the west of the municipality. In terms of traffic, the community is located on the D72 a few kilometers south of the A64 .

Tibiran-Jaunac is surrounded by the neighboring communities of Mazères-de-Neste in the north, Gourdan-Polignan (in the Haute-Garonne department) in the northeast, Seilhan (in the Haute-Garonne department) in the east, and Labroquère (in the Haute-Garonne department) in the southeast , Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges (in the Haute-Garonne department) in the south, Générest in the southwest and Aventignan in the west.

history

Cave paintings in two grottos and remains from the Gallo-Roman period attest to early settlement. The place Tibiran appears as Tebiran for the first time in Comminges' copial book . In the Middle Ages, the place was within the Armagnac region, which in turn was part of the Gascogne province. The parish belonged to the district La Barthe from 1793 to 1801. In addition, Tibiran-Jaunac was within the canton of Saint-Laurent-de-Neste from 1793 to 2015 . The municipality has been part of the Bagnères-de-Bigorre arrondissement since 1801. Between 1790 and 1794 the two communities Tibiran and Jaunac merged to form the new community Tibiran-Jaunac.

Population development

year 1793 1800 1836 1876 1911 1921 1962 1968 1975 1982 1990 1999 2006 2014
Residents 562 515 636 457 405 358 244 240 222 229 246 246 247 295
Sources: Cassini and INSEE

Attractions

  • Stone Age grotto, a monument historique since 1953
  • Saint Pierre Church in Tibiran
  • Church Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Jaunac
  • Chapel Notre-Dame-du-Bout-des-Rives in Barsous in the southeast of the community
  • Castle Château Boucoulan in the northeast of the community
  • Commemorative plaque for the fallen
  • several wayside crosses

Web links

Commons : Tibiran-Jaunac  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Description of the Monument historique (French)
  2. Commemorative plaque for the fallen