Garmendia is the surname of a family of the Basque Country region of Guipuzcoa, in Spain. The surname means "wheat mountain" (gar 'wheat', mendi 'mountain'), after Garmendia de Iraurgui, later known as Salvatierra de Iraurgui, later the site of the cities of Azpeitia and Azkoitia.[citation needed]
As almost every Basque family, Garmendia enjoys the status of hidalgo, of ancient origin, previous to the Reconquista. The coat of arms of some of its bearers is Argent, a boarsable, running away from a hunter, who injures it with a lance sable tipped azure, upon a hill vert with a tree vert.
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