Orduña

Orduña-Urduña

Orduña-Urduña

Municipality in Basque Country, Spain

Urduña/Orduña (Basque: Urduña; Spanish: Orduña) is an exclave and municipality of 4,232 inhabitants located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the North of Spain.

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Geography

View of the valley of Orduña
Train station

The municipality is an exclave of Biscay, surrounded entirely by the Basque province of Álava and the province of Burgos, part of Castile and León. It is located in a plain in the highest part of the Nervión river valley, at the foot of the Sierra Salbada mountains. The municipality contains the small exclave of Cerca de Villaño, surrounded by the neighbouring province of Burgos.[2]

Orduña is the final station of the commuter rail line C-3 that links the town with Bilbao.

Notable people

References

  1. [1]
    Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.
  2. [2]
    Errazti, Izaskun (14 December 2017). "El cachito de Bizkaia que está en Burgos y no sale en los mapas". El Correo (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 May 2022.
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