Lekeitio
Sign in to saveLekeitio (; ) is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Spanish Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northeast from Bilbao. The municipality has 7,307 inhabitants (2019) and is one of the most important fishing ports of the Basque coast. Tourism has an important role during the summer seasons, when the town is a resort with one beach called Isuntza and the nearby Karraspio beach in the town of Mendexa.
Key facts
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- Municipality
- Settlement.official_name
- Lekeitio
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- Lekeitio
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Lekeitio harbour.jpg
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- Lekeitio_bandera.gif
- Settlement.image_shield
- Coat of Arms of Lekeito.svg
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- Spain Basque Country
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- Location of Lekeitio within the Basque Country
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- Country
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- Spain
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- Autonomous community
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- Basque Country
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- Province
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- Biscay
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- Comarca
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- Lea-Artibai
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- 0
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 1.90
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Official name
- Lekeitio
- Demonym
- lekeitiar
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Lea-Artibai
- Continent
- Europe
- Official language
- Basque
- Population
- 3944
- Area
- 1.9
- Elevation
- 0
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Body of water
- Cantabrian Sea
- Shares border with
- Mendexa
- Official website
- www.lekeitio.com
- Image
- Lekeitio 015.jpg
- Licence plate code
- BI
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- Commons category
- Lekeitio
- postal code
- 48.280
- topic's main category
- Category:Lekeitio
- category for people born here
- Q10055672
- inception
- 1326-00-00
- female population
- 3698
- male population
- 3609
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Encyclopedic overview
7 sectionsContents
- Festivals
- San Pedroak
- San Antolinak
- Cave art
- Notable people from Lekeitio
- External links
- References
Lekeitio (; ) is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Spanish Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northeast from Bilbao. The municipality has 7,307 inhabitants (2019) and is one of the most important fishing ports of the Basque coast. Tourism has an important role during the summer seasons, when the town is a resort with one beach called Isuntza and the nearby Karraspio beach in the town of Mendexa.
The most important monument is the church of Santa María, a gothic basilica from the 15th century. Lekeitio is also the birthplace of Resurrección María de Azkue, one of the most important Basque scholars of the 19th century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lekeitio” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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