Otano, Navarre
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]
Otano | |
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Locality | |
  Otano  Otano | |
| Coordinates: 42°42′49″N 1°34′6″W[1] | |
| Country |  Spain |
| Community |  Navarre |
| Province | Navarre |
| Municipality | Noáin |
| Elevation | 517 m (1,696 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 7 |
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.[3] Although reduced in population it is a parish, of which the 16th-century church is dedicated either to San Salvador or to the Ascension.[4][3] There are also elements of a Romanesque bridge incorporated into the present one over the river Elorz.[3]
Martín Javier Mina y Larrea was born in the hamlet in 1789.[5]
References
- Mapa de Otano, Noáin, Navarra, España
- "Nomenclátor: Población del Padrón Continuo por Unidad Poblacional" (in Spanish). Instituto Nacional de Estadística (España). Retrieved 3 December 2021.
- The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook, Gitlitz and Davidson, 2000
- Diccionario Geográfico-Histórico de España, publ. for the Real Academia de la Historia 1802, Seccion I, vol.1, p. 212
- Spanish Guerrillas in the Peninsular War 1808-1814, Renè Chartrand, Osprey Publishing. London, 2004