Bassussarry

 ( Communes Of Pyrénées-atlantiques ) 

Two bus services pass through and have stops in the commune operated by Transports 64:

• Service 860 Bayonne to Cambo-les-Bains
• Service 880 Bayonne to Arbonne

The commune lies in the drainage basin of the Adour with the Nive river forming the whole eastern border of the commune as it flows north to join the Adour. The Ruisseau d'Urdains flows from a small lake just south of the commune northwards, forming the north-eastern border of the commune, before joining the Nive in the north-eastern corner. The Ruisseau de Harrieta flows from the south-west of the commune to the north-east joining the Ruisseau d'Urbaine near the D932. The Ruisseau de Pétaboure rises in the north-west of the commune and forms the northern border as it flows east to join the Ruisseau de Harrieta in the commune.

• Axerimendi
• Behikenea
• Betbeder
• Borda Nasa
• Bordaberria
• Castanche
• Dorriotz
• Harrieta
• Juanita
• Juantipi
• Larrebure
• Lataste
• Luberri
• Martinaskoenea
• Moussans
• Oihenart
• Peillé
• Penen
• Portukoborda
• Urdains (château)
• la Vigne
• Xemeto

The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune.

Sources:

• Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, Paul Raymond, Imprimerie nationale, 1863, Digitised from Lyon Public Library 15 June 2011
• Orpustan: Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy
• Ldh/EHESS/Cassini:
• Lhande: Pierre Lhande, Basque-French Dictionary, 1926
• Register: Church Register of BayonneManuscripts from the 18th century - Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Origins:

• Bayonne: Cartulary of Bayonne or Livre d'Or (Book of Gold)Manuscript from the 14th century in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
• Collations: Collations of the Diocese of BayonneManuscripts from the 17th and 18th centuries in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
• Navarre: Titles of the Kingdom of NavarreTitles of the Kingdom of Navarre in the Departmental Archives of Pyrénées-Atlantiques

Bassussarry appears as Baßußarry on the 1750 Cassini Map and does not appear at all on the 1790 version.

• the Communauté d'agglomération du Pays Basque;
• the SIVOM of Arbonne-Arcangues-Bassussarry;
• the energy association of Pyrénées-Atlantiques;
• the inter-communal association for the management of the Txakurrak centre;
• the inter-communal association to support Basque culture;
• the joint association for the management of drinking water Ura;
• the joint association for collective and non-collective sanitation Ura
• the joint association of maritime Nive;
• the joint association of the drainage basin of the Nive.

Bassussarry is the seat of the SIVOM Arbonne-Arcangues-Bassussarry

The commune is part of the Bayonne-San Sebastián Eurocity.

• Dominique Joseph Garat, born in 1749 at Bayonne and died in 1833 at Bassussarry, was a lawyer, journalist, and French philosopher. He was elected to the Académie française in 1803.
• Christophe-Louis Légasse, born in 1859 at Bassussarry and died in 1931 at Périgueux, was a French Catholic Prelate, successively Apostolic prefect in Saint Pierre and Miquelon from 1899 to 1915, Bishop of Oran from 1915 to 1920, and Bishop of Périgueux from 1920 to 1931.
• Christophe Hondelatte, journalist born in 1962 at Bayonne, grew up in Bassussarry. Interview with Christophe Hondelatte by the Journal du Pays basque on 24 January 2009 "I, who grew up in Bassussaury..."

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department