Otano | |
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Locality | |
Coordinates: 42°42′49″N 1°34′6″W / 42.71361°N 1.56833°W [1] | |
Country | Spain |
Community | Navarre |
Province | Navarre |
Municipality | Noáin |
Elevation | 517 m (1,696 ft) |
Population | |
• Total | 7 |
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 is located 20km south-southeast of Pamplona, in the valley of the river Elorz on the slopes of Mount Alaiz. [3]
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]