Portugalete

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Portugalete municipality
Portuguese across the Ría de Bilbao
Portuguese across the Ría de Bilbao
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Portugalete coat of arms
Portugalete (Spain)
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Basic data
Autonomous Community : Basque Country
Province : Bizkaia
Comarca : Gran Bilbao
Coordinates 43 ° 19 ′  N , 3 ° 1 ′  W 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
Bizkaia municipalities Portugalete.JPG

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 .

  • Portugalete Town Hall

  • View from Portugalete on the Nervión river.

  • Foreground sculpture, background bridge with transporter bridge over Nervión river.

Web links

Commons : Portugalete  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 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).