First picture at http://membres.lycos.fr/fetedescerises/histoire.htm

Peter S.

--- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
<smaardijk@y...> wrote:

> Internal Basque tripoints:
>
> EH2GILANA (Gipuzkoa, Lapurdi, Navarre) a.k.a. ESFR2GINAPY

(Gipuzkoa,

> Navarre, Pyrénées Atlantiques): In the Bidasoa river, opposite ESFR
> boundary marker no. 1 (Xapitelako Harria, near the hamlet of
> Endarlatsa). The municipalities here are: GI: Irun/Irún, NA:
> Bera/Vera de Bidasoa, PY: Biriatu/Biriatou.
>
> EH2LANANB (Lapurdi, Navarre, Lower Navarre=Nafarroa Beherea) a.k.a.
> ESFR2NAPY3BABIIT (Baztan/Baztán, Bidarrai/Bidarray,

Itsasu/Itxassou):

> ESFR boundary marker no. 81 (+/-250 m. ENE of the Mehatxe pass).
>
> EH2NANBZU (Navarre, Lower Navarre, Zuberoa) a.k.a. ESFR2NAPY3LALEOT
> (Larraine/Larrau, Lekunberri/Lécumberry, Otsagabia/Ochagavía): In

the

> Irratiko erreka (=Irati brook), opposite ESFR boundary marker no.

230.

>
> NB: The northern Basque provinces aren't at present administrative
> entities (they were before the French revolution). The northern
> Basque country forms, together with Béarn, the Pyrénées Atlantiques
> departement. The three provinces of the north (commonly known as
> Iparralde (=the north side) in Basque) don't meet in one point;

Lower

> Navarre prevents Lapurdi and Zuberoa to meet up.
>
> Very purist Basque deny, by the way, the existence of Lower

Navarre;

> they consider it Navarre's sixth "merinalde" (=+/- bailiwick),

namely

> that of "Across the mountain passes" ("Ultra Puertos" in Spanish).
> Navarre is, after all, divided between two states.
>
> Peter S.
>
> --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "acroorca2002" <orc@o...>

wrote:

> > very nice
> >
> > & just to complete the basic basque punctoscopy
> > since i believe we may now be able to do so
> > with the grand total of major tripoints already shaping up at
> > somewhere between 3 & 7
> > based on the admittedly inadequate map in
> > http://www.geocities.com/Athens/9479/basque.html
> > isnt there also an international & most major basque tripoint in
> > the rio bidasoa
> > indeed not far from our favorite whosiwhatsis
> > where the blue basque autonomous community
> > & the yellow autonomous community of navarre
> > both within spain
> > meet the red pyrenees atlantiques basque department of france
> > at a point that might be called something like esfr2banapy
> >
> > & since i cant produce a better map
> > would you know if the 3 nonautonomous basque provinces in
> > france also share any tripoints with the spanish basque country
> > like this one of mixed constituency at arbara
> >
> > & finally
> > do these french basque provinces also enjoy a homogeneous
> > tripoint amongst themselves
> > like the one in the bac
> > or do they fail to produce one amongst themselves
> > like delaware
> >
> > if these few blanks can be filled in
> > it at least appears that the topological diagram & inventory of

the

> > basque tripoints will be complete on the top 2 levels
> >
> > but perhaps you have other input as well
> >
> > --- In BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Peter Smaardijk"
> > <smaardijk@y...> wrote:
> > > The other tripoint in the Southern Basque Country: Between
> > Araba
> > > (Basque Auton. Comm.), Gipuzkoa (B.A.C.), and Navarre:
> > > http://em.luberri.net/jpg/arbara20021128140705.jpg
> > >
> > > (BTW, for those who read Basque: http://em.luberri.net is a
> > great
> > > site with lots of pictures of mountain tops in the Basque
> > Country.
> > > And quite a lot are situated on borders...)
> > >
> > > Peter S.