Eaux-Bonnes | |
Commune Status: | Commune |
Image Coat Of Arms: | Blason ville fr Eaux-Bonnes (Pyrénées-Atlantiques).svg |
Arrondissement: | Oloron-Sainte-Marie |
Canton: | Oloron-Sainte-Marie-2 |
Insee: | 64204 |
Postal Code: | 64440 |
Mayor: | Jean-Luc Braud[1] |
Term: | 2020 - 2026 |
Intercommunality: | Vallée d'Ossau |
Coordinates: | 42.9739°N -0.3908°W |
Elevation M: | 750 |
Elevation Min M: | 520 |
Elevation Max M: | 2619 |
Area Km2: | 38.52 |
Demonym: | Eaux-Bonnais, Eaux-Bonnaises |
Eaux-Bonnes (in French o bɔn/, "good waters"; Occitan (post 1500);: Aigas Bonas) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.
Eaux-Bonnes is close to the small town of Laruns. It is situated at a height of 2460feet at the entrance of a fine gorge, overlooking the confluence of two rivers. The village's waters were first documented in the middle of the 14th century. The Eaux-Chaudes spa is 5miles south-west of Eaux-Bonnes, and there is fine mountain scenery in the neighbourhood of both places, the Pic de Ger near Eaux-Bonnes.
The climate which characterizes the town is of "mountain climate", according to the typology of climates of France which then has eight major types of climates in metropolitan France.[2]
Gourette is a winter sports resort located in the commune on the high mountain pass Col d'Aubisque.
The historian Auguste Lorieux (1796–1842) died in Eaux-Bonnes.
Nearby to the north-west on the Surcou road, is the impressive villa Cockade, the construction of which is detailed in Dornford Yates's novel The House That Berry Built.