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It's the sixth most populated [[metropolitan area]] of [[Spain]], with over 900,000 inhabitants, which is the most part of the 1,100,000 inhabitants of the [[Biscay]] province (the city of [[Bilbao]] has 353,000) and almost half of the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]]'s population |
It's the sixth most populated [[metropolitan area]] of [[Spain]], with over 900,000 inhabitants, which is the most part of the 1,100,000 inhabitants of the [[Biscay]] province (the city of [[Bilbao]] has 353,000) and almost half of the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]]'s population |
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The region's municipalities, as defined by the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]]'s Territorial Directives, are: [[Zierbena|Abanto y Zierbena]], [[Alonsotegi]], [[Arrankudiaga]], [[Arrigorriaga]], [[Barakaldo]], [[Barrika]], [[Basauri]], [[Berango]], [[Bilbao]], [[Derio]], [[Etxebarri]], [[Erandio]], [[Galdakao]], [[Getxo]], [[Górliz]], [[Larrabetzu]], [[Lejona]], [[Lemoiz]], [[Lezama]], [[Loiu]], [[Muskiz]], [[Ortuella]], [[Plentzia]], [[Portugalete]], [[Santurtzi]], [[Sestao]], [[Sondika]], [[Sopelana]], [[Ugao-Miraballes]], [[Urduliz]], [[Valle de Trápaga-Trapagaran]], [[Zamudio]], [[Zaratamo]] and [[Zeberio]]. |
The region's municipalities, as defined by the [[Basque Country (autonomous community)|Basque Country]]'s Territorial Directives, are: [[Zierbena|Abanto y Zierbena]], [[Alonsotegi]], [[Arrankudiaga]], [[Arrigorriaga]], [[Barakaldo]], [[Barrika]], [[Basauri]], [[Berango]], [[Bilbao]], [[Derio]], [[Etxebarri]], [[Erandio]], [[Galdakao]], [[Getxo]], [[Górliz]], [[Larrabetzu]], [[Lejona]], [[Lemoiz]], [[Lezama]], [[Loiu]], [[Muskiz]], [[Ortuella]], [[Plentzia]], [[Portugalete]], [[Santurtzi]], [[Sestao]], [[Sondika]], [[Sopelana]], [[Ugao-Miraballes]], [[Urduliz]], [[Valle de Trápaga-Trapagaran]], [[Zamudio]], [[Zaratamo]] and [[Zeberio]]. |
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The area can be divided into different zones: |
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*''The city of Bilbao''. |
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*''The left bank'': Traditionally industrial, port, and manufacturing zone including towns like Barakaldo, Sestao, Portugalete or Santurce. |
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*''The right bank'', more residential: Erandio, Leioa and Getxo. |
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*''The [[mining]] zone'', where the main [[iron ore]] resources were located: Muskiz, Gallarta, Ortuella |
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*''Asua valley'', wide expansion zone where the [[Bilbao Airport|international airport]] and the [[University of the Basque Country|university]] are located. |
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*''High Nervion valley'', including Basauri, Galdkao or Arrigorriaga. |
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==Urban Regeneration== |
==Urban Regeneration== |
Revision as of 14:32, 6 September 2006
The Biscayan region of the Gran Bilbao (Greater Bilbao) also called Metropolitan Bilbao is constituted by a set of municipalities along the Nervion River ending at its mouth, that due to their growth have gotten physically united looking like a single city (see conurbation), plus some satellite towns.
Geography
It's the sixth most populated metropolitan area of Spain, with over 900,000 inhabitants, which is the most part of the 1,100,000 inhabitants of the Biscay province (the city of Bilbao has 353,000) and almost half of the Basque Country's population The region's municipalities, as defined by the Basque Country's Territorial Directives, are: Abanto y Zierbena, Alonsotegi, Arrankudiaga, Arrigorriaga, Barakaldo, Barrika, Basauri, Berango, Bilbao, Derio, Etxebarri, Erandio, Galdakao, Getxo, Górliz, Larrabetzu, Lejona, Lemoiz, Lezama, Loiu, Muskiz, Ortuella, Plentzia, Portugalete, Santurtzi, Sestao, Sondika, Sopelana, Ugao-Miraballes, Urduliz, Valle de Trápaga-Trapagaran, Zamudio, Zaratamo and Zeberio.
The area can be divided into different zones:
- The city of Bilbao.
- The left bank: Traditionally industrial, port, and manufacturing zone including towns like Barakaldo, Sestao, Portugalete or Santurce.
- The right bank, more residential: Erandio, Leioa and Getxo.
- The mining zone, where the main iron ore resources were located: Muskiz, Gallarta, Ortuella
- Asua valley, wide expansion zone where the international airport and the university are located.
- High Nervion valley, including Basauri, Galdkao or Arrigorriaga.
Urban Regeneration
The main municipalities of the region and metropolitan area, Bilbao and Barakaldo, and the Basque and Spanish Governments constituted in 1992 the organization Bilbao Ria 2000 for the city-planning regeneration of Bilbao and its surroundings, indeed being these the municipalities more punished by the intense industrial activity and the great amount of contaminated grounds and industrial ruins that derived from that activity. Among the projects that it has impelled this institution is the recovery of Abandoibarra, once industrial ground and the place where the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao and the Euskalduna Palace are located now.
In parallel exists the association Bilbao Metropoli-30, constituted in 1991 by the City council of Bilbao, Biscay and Basque Governments and diverse public and private organizations for the regeneration of Metropolitan Bilbao.
The area is since 1995 fully interconnected by the Metro Bilbao.
Municipalities of the Bilbao Metropolitan Area
- Bilbao Metropolitan Area (35 municipalities)
Abanto y Zierbena | 18.0 km² | 9,503 | 527.9 /km² |
Alonsotegi | 16.0 km² | 2,745 | 171.6 /km² |
Arrankudiaga | 20.8 km² | 4,018 | 193.2 /km² |
Arrigorriaga | 22.8 km² | 12000 | 341 /km² |
Barakaldo | 24.3 km² | 95,260 | 3,920.2 /km² |
Barrika | 7.8 km² | 1,337 | 171.4 /km² |
Basauri | 7.2 km² | 44,052 | 6,118.3 /km² |
Berango | 8.8 km² | 5,904 | 670.9 /km² |
Bilbao | 41.3 km² | 353,173 | 8,551.4 /km² |
Derio | 7.4 km² | 5,030 | 679.7 /km² |
Etxebarri | 3.3 km² | 7,707 | 2,335.5 /km² |
Erandio | 18.0 km² | 23,338 | 1,296.6 /km² |
Galdakao | 31.7 km² | 29,594 | 933.6 /km² |
Górliz | 10.2 km² | 4,882 | 478.6 /km² |
Getxo | 11.9 km² | 82,687 | 6,948.5 /km² |
Larrabetzu | 21.5 km² | 1,647 | 76.6 /km² |
Leioa | 8.5 km² | 28,858 | 3,395.1 /km² |
Lemoiz | 14.3 km² | 925 | 64.7 /km² |
Lezama | 16.5 km² | 2,287 | 138.6 /km² |
Loiu | 15.3 km² | 2,205 | 144.1 /km² |
Muskiz | 20.8 km² | 6,682 | 321.3 /km² |
Ortuella | 7.7 km² | 8,554 | 1,110.9 /km² |
Plentzia | 6.3 km² | 3,949 | 626.8 /km² |
Portugalete | 3.2 km² | 49,788 | 15,558.8 /km² |
Santurce(Santurtzi) | 7.2 km² | 47,155 | 6,549.3 /km² |
Sestao | 3.5 km² | 30,350 | 8,671.4 /km² |
Sondika | 6.3 km² | 4,300 | 682.5 /km² |
Sopelana | 8.4 km² | 11,469 | 1,365.4 /km² |
Ugao-Miraballes | 5.2 km² | 4,060 | 780.8 /km² |
Urduliz | 7.8 km² | 3,241 | 415.5 /km² |
Trapagaran | 13.1 km² | 12,580 | 960.3 /km² |
Zamudio | 18.1 km² | 3,176 | 175.5 /km² |
Zaratamo | 10.0 km² | 1,624 | 162.4 /km² |
Zeberio | 47.1 km² | 1,027 | 21.8 /km² |
Total | 494.7 km² | 906,390 | 1,832.2 /km² |