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Sames ((バスク語:Samatze)) is a commune in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department in south-western France. It is nowadays generally listed as one of the communes in the Basque Country province of Lower Navarre (in Basque, Nefarroa Beheroa). == Geolocation and geography == Sames lies in the valley of the Adour river, the only significant river going to the Gulf of Gascony (otherwise known as Bay of Biscay, from the Basque province Biscaya) other than the Garonne river in the whole of France’s vast southern province called Aquitaine (Aquitania, the old Roman province, that later was called Novempopulania, spread all the way from the Garonne river to the Pyrenees and was populated by Basque-related people from time immemorial). While the Garonne river picks up the longest trail of its waters from middle-eastern Pyrenees till Toulouse, most of its waters actually come from its west bank and the old cambrian mountains of Massif Central, whereas the waters from all the central and western part of the Pyrenees flow down into the Adour (that kept a very ancient bask name, “Atur” or "Aturri"). Sames lies at the precise point where most of the waters converge at the very feet of the northernmost mountainous rises of the Pyrenees to build the powerful Adour, a river over 300m wide, 6 m deep, and swept by tides of 2m up to Sames (and a bit beyond) that from there strikes straight westward to the Atlantic Ocean: - the original Adour coming down southward from a trip northward up to the city of Dax from its welling site in the central Pyrenees in the highland of Bigorre, - the so-called gaves (mountain river) of Pau, issued from the valleys down from the Vignemale mountain range, and generally all of eastern Bearn, and the Gave d'Oloron, draining waters from the western part of Bearn (Aspe, Ossau), the eastern part of the Basque province called Lower-Navarre, and that of Soule (Basque, Zuberoa or Xiberoa) - the Bidouze (probably related to Basque ''bidasoa'', river), as such the strongest river itself in the whole of the French Basque country resulting from a number of gaves a few miles upstream, and that originates from the Pyrenean heartland of Lower-Navarre, close to the Spanish border. Sames is hence a place where the last hills of the Pyrenees splash their feet down into a powerful flow of waters flushed up and down twice daily by the tides 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sames, Pyrénées-Atlantiques」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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