Elantxobe
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Elantxobe is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Elantxobe
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.image_skyline
- 27032018-Elantxobe-Pano-02.jpg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo de Elantxobe.svg
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Spain Basque Country#Spain
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location of Elantxobe within the Basque Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_name
- Spain
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous community
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Basque Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Biscay
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Comarca
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Busturialdea
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 80
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1.85
- Settlement.established_title
- Founded
- Settlement.established_date
- 1858
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Official name
- Elantxobe
- Demonym
- elantxobetar
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Busturialdea
- Continent
- Europe
- Official language
- Basque
- Population
- 1199
- Area
- 1.9
- Elevation
- 80
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Cantabrian Sea
- Shares border with
- Ibarrangelu
- Official website
- www.elantxobe.eu
- Image
- 27032018-Elantxobe-general.jpg
- Licence plate code
- BI
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- Commons category
- Elantxobe
- name
- Elanchove
- postal code
- 48310
- inception
- 1858-00-00
- female population
- 174
- male population
- 176
- P8168
- Tomás Gil
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Encyclopedic overview
4 sectionsContents
- History
- Cityscape
- References
- External links
Elantxobe is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.
==History== The town emerged in 1524 as a fishing port. It gaining some importance in the 17th century as a defensive location on the Biscayan coast, which is currently used as a marina. Until 1858 it was a neighbourhood of the nearby municipality of Ibarrangelu. The town celebrates the festival of its patron, San Nicolás de Bari, on 6 December.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Elantxobe” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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