Related Directory Categories
- Ispaster (1)
Sources
Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.
Submit a site - Become an editor
Wikipedia. Licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Are you an expert in this subject? Join the discussion and share your knowledge at Wikipedia.org.
Ispaster
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
| Ispaster | |||||
|
|||||
| Location | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
|||||
| Coordinates : 43,3623° n. 2,5437° w. Time Zone : CET (GMT +1) - summer: CEST (GMT +2) |
|||||
| General information | |||||
| Native name | Ispaster (Basque) | ||||
| Spanish name | Ispaster | ||||
| Founded | 1332 | ||||
| Postal code | 48288 | ||||
| Website | http://www.ispaster.net/ | ||||
| Administration | |||||
| Country | Spain | ||||
| Autonomous Community | Basque Country | ||||
| Province | Biscay | ||||
| Comarca | Lea-Artibai | ||||
| Mayor | Jesus Lekerikabeaskoa Arrillaga (PNV) | ||||
| Geography | |||||
| Land Area | km² | ||||
| Altitude | 120 m AMSL | ||||
| Population | |||||
| Population | 624 (2003) | ||||
| Density | hab./km² (2003) | ||||
Ispaster is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, northern Spain.
Contents |
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.
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 end of the Modern Age, a constructive explosion takes place that turns the municipality in Biscay's best equipped one in gothic-Renaissance popular architecture.
The Grand Prix Ayuntamiento de Ispaster is held in Ispaster
 |
This article about a location in the Basque Country, Spain is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |