Portugalete
Portugalete municipality | ||
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Portuguese across the Ría de Bilbao
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coat of arms | Map of Spain | |
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Basic data | ||
Autonomous Community : | Basque Country | |
Province : | Bizkaia | |
Comarca : | Gran Bilbao | |
Coordinates | 43 ° 19 ′ N , 3 ° 1 ′ W | |
Height : | 26 msnm | |
Area : | 3.21 km² | |
Residents : | 45,766 (Jan 1, 2019) | |
Population density : | 14,257.32 inhabitants / km² | |
Founding: | 1322 | |
Postal code : | 48920 | |
Municipality number ( INE ): | 48078 | |
administration | ||
Mayor : | since 2008: Mikel Torres ( PSE-EE ) | |
Website : | www.portugalete.org | |
Location of the municipality | ||
Portugalete is a city in the Spanish Basque Country (province of Bizkaia ).
Portugalete has 45,766 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) on an area of 3 km². Portugalete is located northwest of the provincial capital Bilbao on the Ría de Bilbao , the mouth of the Nervión River in the Bay of Biscay , which is navigable for seagoing ships , and belongs to the district (Spanish Comarca , Basque Eskualdea ) Greater Bilbao and the metropolitan area of Bilbao.
Portugalete is about the oldest transporter bridge that in 1893 the world of Alberto de Palacio y Elissague built Puente de Vizcaya , with the opposite district Las Arenas of Getxo connected. Since 2006, the ferry is one of the world heritage of UNESCO .
Web links
Commons : Portugalete - Collection of images, videos and audio files
- City homepage (Spanish, Basque, English)
- The large suspension bridge over the Nervión (Spanish, Basque, English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).