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Key facts
- Country
- Spain
- Autonomous community
- Basque Country
- Province
- Gipuzkoa
- Eskualdea
- Urola Garaia
- Mayor
- Mikel Serrano Aperribay (2015) ( PSE-EE )
- Land
- 19.42 km (7.50 sq mi)
- Elevation
- 356 m (1,168 ft)
- Total
- 9,678
- Density
- 507.11/km (1,313.4/sq mi)
- Time zone
- UTC+1 (CET)
- Summer dst
- UTC+2 (CEST)
- Website
- www.zumarraga.eus
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- municipality of Spain
- Official name
- Zumarraga
- Demonym
- zumarragar
- Country
- Spain
- Located in
- Urola Garaia
- Continent
- Europe
- Official language
- Basque
- Population
- 10324
- Area
- 19.42
- Elevation
- 356.9
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Legazpi
- Official website
- www.zumarraga.eus
- Image
- Zumarraga.JPG
- Licence plate code
- SS
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- Commons category
- Zumarraga
- postal code
- 20700
- topic's main category
- Category:Zumarraga
- category for people born here
- Q9228220
- inception
- 1661-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Zumarraga, Spain
- male population
- 4791
- female population
- 4937
- nickname
- otamotzak
- P8168
- Péter Gulácsi
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Zumarraga ([s̻umaraɣa]) is a municipality and industrial town in Gipuzkoa province of the Basque Country autonomous community of northern Spain, approximately 35 miles (56 km) by road southwest of San Sebastián and 10 miles (16 km) northwest of Idiazabal. As of 2018 the municipality had a population of 9834 people. The Urola river flows through the vicinity. It is the birthplace of Miguel López de Legazpi, conquistador who explored the Pacific Islands and the East Indies, and of Iñaki Urdangarín, the husband of Infanta Cristina of Spain.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Zumarraga” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.