Otano, Navarre Explained

Otano
Settlement Type:Locality
Pushpin Map:Spain Navarre#Spain
Pushpin Label:Otano
Pushpin Label Position:left
Subdivision Type:Country
Subdivision Type1:Community
Subdivision Type2:Province
Subdivision Name2:Navarre
Subdivision Type3:Municipality
Subdivision Name3:Noáin
Population Total:7
Coordinates:42.7136°N -1.5683°W[1]
Elevation M:517
Postal Code Type:Postal code

Otano, known in Basque as Otao, is a hamlet located in the municipality of Noáin, in Navarre province, Spain. As of 2020, it has a population of 7.[2]

Geography

Otano is located 20km south-southeast of Pamplona, in the valley of the river Elorz on the slopes of Mount Alaiz.[3]

History

Otano had a population of 64 in 1802.[4] It stands on the pilgrimage route the Camino de Santiago, which forms its main street. The village belonged in the Middle Ages to the Knights Hospitaller. Although reduced in population it is a parish, of which the 16th-century church is dedicated either to San Salvador or to the Ascension. There are also elements of a Romanesque bridge incorporated into the present one over the river Elorz.

Martín Javier Mina y Larrea was born in the hamlet in 1789.[5]

Notes and References

  1. https://2ua.org/es/esp/nc/otano/mapa/ Mapa de Otano, Noáin, Navarra, España
  2. Web site: Nomenclátor: Población del Padrón Continuo por Unidad Poblacional. es. Instituto Nacional de Estadística (España). 3 December 2021.
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=o6LSRNxuotAC&dq=otano+san+salvador&pg=PA52 The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook, Gitlitz and Davidson, 2000
  4. https://books.google.com/books?id=hMQHB865U5YC&dq=otano+navarra&pg=PA244 Diccionario Geográfico-Histórico de España, publ. for the Real Academia de la Historia 1802, Seccion I, vol.1, p. 212
  5. Spanish Guerrillas in the Peninsular War 1808-1814, Renè Chartrand, Osprey Publishing. London, 2004