Ispaster
Sign in to saveIspaster is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. According to the 2019 census, it has 735 inhabitants.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Ispaster
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Municipality
- Settlement.official_name
- Ispáster
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Ispaster, Biscay, Spain.jpg
- Settlement.image_shield
- Escudo de Ispaster.svg
- Settlement.image_map
- Bizkaia municipalities Ispaster.png
- Settlement.map_caption
- Location of Ispaster in Biscay
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Spain
- Settlement.pushpin_map_caption
- Location in Spain
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Autonomous community
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- Province
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Biscay
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Comarca
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- Lea-Artibai
- Settlement.elevation_m
- 110
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 22.62
- Settlement.population_demonym
- Ispastertarra
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Official name
- Ispaster
- Demonym
- ispastertar
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Lea-Artibai
- Continent
- Europe
- Official language
- Basque
- Population
- 1125
- Area
- 22.62
- Elevation
- 110
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Cantabrian Sea
- Shares border with
- Lekeitio
- Official website
- www.ispaster.net
- Image
- Ispaster, Iglesia 1.JPG
- Licence plate code
- BI
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- Commons category
- Ispaster
- postal code
- 48280
- P8168
- Poul Hartling
- topic's main category
- Category:Ispaster
- female population
- 346
- male population
- 389
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Encyclopedic overview
6 sectionsContents
- Prehistory
- History
- Events
- See also
- References
- External links
Ispaster is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. According to the 2019 census, it has 735 inhabitants.
==Prehistory== The first archaeological artifacts were found in the caves of Kobeaga II and Kobeaga I. The first, located a few kilometers away from the sea, a small group in Mesolithic dedicated to important activity settled as fishing. This settlement, formed by a population of men who fished Mollusca, was founded around 3500 BCE, according to the investigations made by Apellaniz in 1973. The second cave, Kobeaga I, located in the same area as the first, were used as a funeral enclosure during the Bronze Age. In this locality are in addition other deposits without excavating, such as ''Otoyo'ko Jentilkoba, Jentilkoba de Iparretxe and Urtiaga. The first documented mentions of the municipality of Ispaster date from year 1334'', in an order of Alfonso XI.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ispaster” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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