Guéthary

Guéthary (Basque: Getaria) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques depairtment in sooth-wastren Fraunce. It is located in the tradeetional Basque province o Labourd, the toun tradeetionally staundin on the northmaist coastal linguistic boondar o the Basque leid.

Guéthary
Guéthary Location within Nouvelle-Aquitaine region Guéthary
Coordinates: 43°25′36″N 1°36′28″W
Kintra	Fraunce
Region	Nouvelle-Aquitaine
Depairtment	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Bayonne
Canton	Saint-Jean-de-Luz
Govrenment
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Albert Larrousset
Area 1	1 km2 (0.4 sq mi)
Population  (2006)2	1,365
• Density	1,400/km2 (3,500/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
INSEE/Postal code	64249 /64210
Elevation	0–73 m (0–240 ft) (avg. 40 m or 130 ft)
1 French Laund Register data, that excludes lochs, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) an river estuaries. 2 Population withoot dooble coontin: residents o multiple communes (e.g., students an militar personnel) anerly coontit ance.

History

Guéthary haes existit as a smaw fishin veelage syne the early 12t century. It became famous for huntin whales in the 13t century. Actually, the linguist Henri Gavel put doun the name o the toun tae the Gascon wird getari, 'post for watchin' (the whales), while this assumption haes been disputit bi current linguists, who trace the name back tae laitin caetaria, 'fish processin facility', supportit bi airchaeological evidence unyirdit baith in Guéthary an the same name Getaria frae Gipuzkoa.

See an aw

• Communes o the Pyrénées-Atlantiques depairtment

References

• INSEE commune file

Freemit airtins

• Tourism office wabsteid Archived 2009-12-12 at the Wayback Machine
• Toun cooncil wabsteid (in French)
• GETARIA in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa) (in Spanish)