Orthez

Aquitaine

Orthez is a municipality and the main town of a canton in south-western France, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques département in the region of Aquitaine, 40 km NW of Pau on the southern railway to Bayonne. The town also encompasses the small village of Sainte-Suzanne, thus residents of the town are either called Orthéziens or Sainte-Suzannais. According to the population figures from 1999, there are 10,121 people residing in the community, and 16,168 in the canton. In 1906, the town had a population of 4,159 and the municipality had a population of 6,254.

Francis Jammes High School

Francis Jammes High school is a vocational school in Orthez which has about 300 pupils studying three different vocational branches.

• Secretarial Teaching
• Sales Assistent
• Social and Health Teaching

Agriculture

• Landes, the largest European forest
• First global wine producer
• First webfooted bird breeder
• Leadership in maize, carrots, strawberries and plums for prune production
• 4 harbours competing with European harbours

School Website
Blog of the Comenius Project

Factories Visited Lacq Basin Lépine Industries Philippe Morisse Company

Energy Consumption Results of the Survey

Water and Sustainable Development Aquitaine Water Consumption