Otano, known in Basque as Otao, is a hamlet located in the municipality of Noáin, in Navarre province, Spain. As of 2020, it has a population of 7.
Geography Otano is located 20 km south-southeast of Pamplona, in the valley of the river Elorz on the slopes of Mount Alaiz.The Pilgrimage Road to Santiago: The Complete Cultural Handbook, Gitlitz and Davidson, 2000
History Otano had a population of 64 in 1802.Diccionario Geográfico-Histórico de España, publ. for the Real Academia de la Historia 1802, Seccion I, vol. 1, p. 212 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. Although reduced in population it is a parish, of which the 16th-century church is dedicated either to San Salvador or to the Ascension. There are also elements of a Romanesque bridge incorporated into the present one over the river Elorz.
Martín Javier Mina y Larrea was born in the hamlet in 1789.Spanish Guerrillas in the Peninsular War 1808-1814, Renè Chartrand, Osprey Publishing. London, 2004
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