Ortuella
Sign in to saveOrtuella is a town and municipality located in the province of Bizkaia, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain.
Key facts
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- Ortuella
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- Municipality
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- View from Serantes
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- Spain Basque Country
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- Location of Ortuella 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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- Greater Bilbao
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- 66
- Settlement.area_total_km2
- 7.65
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- Segregated
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Ortuella is a town and municipality located in the province of Bizkaia, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain.
Nowadays part of the Greater Bilbao region, until the beginning of the 19th century it was integrated in the Valley of Somorrostro of Enkarterri along with Santurtzi. In 1901 the locality segregated from the municipality of Santurtzi, becoming known as Santurce-Ortuella. This segregation was motivated by an increase of population due to the mining boom at the end of the 19th century, which saw the district of Ortuella become the most populous part of the municipality. In the 1980s, and by means of the resolution of 27 March 1981, the name of the municipality definitively lost the term "Santurce", simply being "Ortuella", which was the usual name used by their citizens.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ortuella” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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