Salies-de-Béarn

Salies-de-Béarn
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Coat of arms
Salies-de-Béarn
Location within Aquitaine region Salies-de-Béarn
Coordinates:
Country	France
Region	Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes
Department	Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Arrondissement	Pau
Canton	Salies-de-Béarn
Intercommunality	Salies-de-Béarn
Government
• Mayor (2001–2008)	Lucien Basse-Cathalinat
Area1	52.08 km2 (20.11 sq mi)
Population (2006)2	4,993
• Density	96/km2 (250/sq mi)
INSEE/Postal code	64499 / 64270
Elevation	28–202 m (92–663 ft) (avg. 56 m or 184 ft)
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km² (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. 2 Population without double counting: residents of multiple communes (e.g., students and military personnel) only counted once.

Salies-de-Béarn (Occitan: Salias) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France.

The name comes from its naturally occurring saline water (Gascon salias for Standard Occitan salinas). During the occupation of France by Nazi Germany, Salies was on the border between the occupied zone and the free zone.

Salies-de-Bearn served as the setting of the Trevanian penned novel The Summer of Katya. In that book, it took the name Salies-les-Bains.

See also

• Communes of the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department

References

• INSEE commune file