Otano
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Coordinates: 42°42′49″N 1°34′6″W / 42.71361°N 1.56833°W / 42.71361; -1.56833[1] | |
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Province | Navarre |
Municipality | Noáin |
Elevation | 517 m (1,696 ft) |
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• Total | 7 |
Otano, known in BasqueasOtao, 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]
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