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Ispaster
Location in Spain
Coordinates: 43°21′46″N2°32′35″W / 43.36278°N 2.54306°W / 43.36278; -2.54306 Coordinates: 43°21′46″N2°32′35″W / 43.36278°N 2.54306°W / 43.36278; -2.54306
CountryFlag of Spain.svg  Spain
Autonomous community Flag of the Basque Country.svg  País Vasco
Province Biscay
Comarca Lea-Artibai
Government
   Mayor Jesús María Lekerikabeaskoa Arrillaga (PNV)
Area
  Total22.62 km2 (8.73 sq mi)
Elevation
110 m (360 ft)
Population
 (2018) [1]
  Total725
  Density32/km2 (83/sq mi)
Demonym Ispastertarra
Time zone UTC+1 (CET)
  Summer (DST) UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code
48280
Website Official website

Ispaster is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain. According to the 2019 census, it has 735 inhabitants.

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Prehistory

The first archaeological artifacts were found in the caves of Kobeaga II and Kobeaga I. The first, located a few kilometers away from the sea, a small group in Mesolithic dedicated to important activity settled as fishing. This settlement, formed by a population of men who fished Mollusca, was founded around 3500 BCE, according to the investigations made by Apellaniz in 1973. The second cave, Kobeaga I, located in the same area as the first, were used as a funeral enclosure during the Bronze Age. In this locality are in addition other deposits without excavating, such as Otoyo'ko Jentilkoba, Jentilkoba de Iparretxe and Urtiaga. The first documented mentions of the municipality of Ispaster date from year 1334, in an order of Alfonso XI.

History

Ispaster is located in a coastal hill, alternating between low and sandy areas to cliffs. The first signs of human occupation are in diverse cavities where a small group lived on fishermen-recolectores during the Mesolithic. Others served like funeral enclosures from the Neolithic. At the beginning of the early modern period, a constructive explosion takes place that turns the municipality in Biscay's best equipped one in gothic-Renaissance popular architecture.

Events

The Grand Prix Ayuntamiento de Ispaster is held in Ispaster

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References

  1. Municipal Register of Spain 2018. National Statistics Institute.