Abanto y Ciérvana-Abanto Zierbena is a municipality located in the province of

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, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the north of Spain. Administratively it has been separate from its neighbour

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, about to the north, since 1995; however, its name has never been officially shortened to Abanto due to there being a small village of that name in the

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region. The vast majority of the municipality's population do not reside in the tiny hamlet of Abanto but in the former mining settlement of Gallarta, nowadays a commuter town for

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with motorway connection (

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), train station (

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C2 line) and a large

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Neighborhoods

Abanto was originally divided into ''concejo''s, Susoko Abanto or Abanto de Suso and Yusoko Abanto or Abanto de Yuso, nowadays administratively divided into neighborhoods or wards: * Susoko Abanto ** Abanto (pop. 59) ** Campillo (pop. 32) ** Gallarta (town center, pop. 5,107) ** Balastera (pop. 68) ** Florida (pop. 9) ** Las Calizas (Pop. 44) ** Picón (pop. 21) ** Santa Juliana (pop. 146) ** Triano (pop. 52) * Yusoko Abanto ** Cotorrio (pop. 154) ** Las Carreras (pop. 1,814) ** Las Cortes (pop. 7) ** El Once (pop. 3) ** Olabarrieta (Pop. 55) ** Murrieta (pop. 51) ** Putxeta (pop. 269) ** San Pedro Abanto (pop. 46) ** Sanfuentes (pop. 1,675)

List of mayors of Abanto y Ciérvana-Abanto Zierbena, since 1842

* January 1842 – January 1843 Andrés José de San Martín * January 1843 - July 1843 Emeterio del Alisal * July 1843 - March 1844 Benigno Ruiz de Murga * March 1844 – 1 January 1846 José María de Arechabaleta * 1 January 1846 – 3 January 1847 Juan Francisco del Merro * 3 January 1847 – 1 January 1850 Miguel de Escuza * 1 January 1850 – 1 January 1854 Pablo de los Heros * 1 January 1854 – 2 October 1854 Francisco de Robledo * 2 October 1854 – 12 March 1857 José González y El Cerro * 12 March 1857 – 1 January 1859 Cosme de Allende * 1 January 1859 – 1 January 1861 Miguel de Escuza * 1 January 1861 – 1 January 1865 José de Aranguren * 1 January 1865 – 1 January 1867 Ruperto de Lejarza * 1 January 1867 – 1 January 1869 Manuel de Garay y Laza * 1 January 1869 - March 1872 Agapito de Sasia * March 1872 – September 1873 Antonio Hurtado * September 1873 – January 1874 Agustín Yarto * January 1874 – 1 January 1875 Antonio de Escuza (dean) * 1 January 1875 – 1 January 1876 Maximino de Uriarte * 1 January 1876 – 7 March 1876 Manuel Chave (accidental) * 7 March 1876 – 11 April 1876 Juan Ángel de Allende * 11 April 1876 – 1 April 1877 José Antonio Escuza * 1 April 1877 – 1 July 1879 Mamerto Bermeosolo * 1 July 1879 – 1 July 1881 Juan Ángel de Allende * 1 July 1881 – 1 July 1885 Mariano de Olabarría * 1 July 1885 – 1 January 1890 Calisto López Sáez * 1 January 1890 – 1 July 1891 Eugenio Solano * 1 July 1891 – 1 January 1894 Agustín Iza Rementería * 1 January 1894 - October 1900 Calisto López Sáez * 3 November 1900 – 1 January 1904 Agustín Iza Rementería * 1 January 1904 – 1 January 1906 Agustín Garmendia * 1 January 1906 – 1 January 1910 Bernardo Ruiz Elizondo * 1 January 1910 - January 1912 Alejo Egusquizaga Bilbao * Urtarrila 1912 - January 1914 Manuel Asla * January 1914 – 1 January 1916 José Salcedo Zubaran * 1 January 1916 – 1 January 1918 Luis Sanjinés * 1 January 1918 – 1 January 1920 Fabriciano Torróntegui * 1 January 1920 – 1 October 1923 Antonio Pujana Meave * 1 October 1923 – 26 March 1924 Dionisio Ureta Balparda * 26 March 1924 – 12 March 1930 Tomás Quintana Martín * 12 March 1930 – 31 January 1931 Dionisio Ureta Balparda * 31 January 1931 – 15 April 1931 Francisco de Uribe Urioste * 15 April 1931 – 28 April 1931 Nemesio Merodio Ramos (provisional) * 28 April 1931 – 14 November 1934 Antonio Pujana Meave * 14 November 1934 – 23 February 1936 José Colón Laza * 23 February 1936 – 2 July 1937 Antonio Pujana Meave * 2 July 1937 – 9 February 1938 Luis Sanjinés Renovales * 9 February 1938 – 3 May 1952 José Colón Laza * 3 May 1952 – 29 August 1955 Eugenio Mendicote Mardones * 29 August 1955 – 5 December 1959 Juan Ramón Sánchez-Serrano Múgica * 5 December 1959 – 26 August 1964 Francisco Garaygordobil Barrutia * 26 August 1964 – 14 December 1969 Tomás Alonso García * 14 December 1969 – 10 September 1974 José Antonio Romero Onaindia * 10 September 1974 – 19 April 1979 Luis Andrés Merodio García * 19 April 1979 – 23 May 1983 Francisco Puerto Balmisa * 23 May 1983 – July 1987 Luis María Vallejo López * July 1987 – 15 June 1991 Francisco Puerto Balmisa * 15 June 1991 - 1995 Luis María Vallejo López * 1995 – 2003 Juan José Mezcorta Puertollano * 2003 – 2013 Manuel Tejada Lanbarri * 2013 – in charge Maite Etxebarria Azpiolea

Notable people

Dolores Ibárruri Isidora Dolores Ibárruri Gómez (; 9 December 189512 November 1989), also known as (English: "the Passionflower"), was a Spanish Republican politician of the Spanish Civil War of 1936–1939 and a communist known for her slogan ''¡No Pasará ...

(1895–1989),

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politician * Nélida Zaitegi (b. 1946), teacher and pedagogue

Neighborhoods

List of mayors of Abanto y Ciérvana-Abanto Zierbena, since 1842

Notable people

Demographics

References

See also