Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast () is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in southwestern France. The people of the commune are known as Aiziriztar. Geography Location The commune is part of the Mixe country in the French Basque Country of Lower Navarre. It is located immediately north of Saint-Palais. Highway D29 runs north from Saint-Palais through the entire commune from south to north and passing through the town. The D529 Highway runs east from the commune to its junction with Highway D134. Highway D933 enters the commune in the southeast and runs north along the eastern side of the commune to exit in the north. Hydrography The commune is located in the Drainage basin of the Adour and is watered by the Bidouze, a tributary of the Adour, and it has its tributaries: the Joyeuse and the Eyherachar and Recalde streams. Places and Hamlets Aguerria Ahano Aïcirits Aiherguy Berhouet Blazy Bordaberry Camou Capou Changartia Chourry Christy (2 place names) Coutrenia Elgartemix Enauthardy Errecaldia Escutary Esquilamborda Etchart Etchebestia Etchecoin Etchegorria Eyhera Eyherabidia Goyhenetchia Halsague L'Hippodrome Hourcadette Ihitzague Ilhardoy Jauberria Larrabure Larramendy Larrania Larrartia Longynia Mandachainia Mendiburia Mocoroua Oyhenart Sagaspe Salha Salle Suhast Tocoua Tolospia Ttarga (craft zone) Climate Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast has a oceanic climate (Köppen climate classification Cfb). The average annual temperature in Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast is . The average annual rainfall is with November as the wettest month. The temperatures are highest on average in August, at around , and lowest in January, at around . The highest temperature ever recorded in Aïcirits-Camou-Suhast was on 4 August 2003; the coldest temperature ever recorded was on 25 December 2001. Toponymy The commune's name in Basque is Aiziritze-Gamue-Zohazti. For Aïcirits, Jean-Baptiste Orpustan proposed the Basque etymology aitz, meaning "high" and aratze, meaning "fern patch", giving "high fern patch" or "rocky fern patch". He also indicated that Suhast may come from zuhaztoi, meaning "plantation of trees". The inhabitants of Camou are known as Gamuar and the inhabitants of Suhast are known as Zohaztiar. The following table details the origins of the commune name and other names in the commune. Sources: Orpustan: Jean-Baptiste Orpustan, New Basque Toponymy Raymond: Topographic Dictionary of the Department of Basses-Pyrenees, 1863, on the page numbers indicated in the table. Origins: Notaries: Notaries of Labastide-Villefranche Bayonne: Cartulary of Bayonne or Livre d'Or (Book of Gold) Ohix: Navarre: Titles of the Kingdom of Navarre Biscay: Martin Biscay Pamplona: Titles of Pamplona History The