The Bay of Txingudi ( eu, Txingudiko badia, french: Baie de Chingoudy, es, Bahía de Chingudi) is a bay in the right or French bank of the
estuary
An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea. Estuaries form a transition zone between river environments and maritime environm ...
of the
Bidasoa
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The Bidasoa (, ; french: Bidassoa, ) is a river in the Basque Country of northern Spain and southern France that runs largely south to north. Named as such downstream of the village of Oronoz-Mugairi (municipality of Baztan) in the p ...
river, near
Hendaye
Hendaye ( Basque: ''Hendaia'')[HENDAIA]
département
In the administrative divisions of France, the department (french: département, ) is one of the three levels of government under the national level (" territorial collectivities"), between the administrative regions and the communes. Ninety ...
of
Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Pyrénées-Atlantiques (; Gascon Occitan: ''Pirenèus Atlantics''; eu, Pirinio Atlantiarrak or ) is a department in the southwest corner of France and of the region of Nouvelle-Aquitaine. Named after the Pyrenees mountain range and the Atlant ...
in south-west France. It faces the town of
Hondarribia es, fuenterribense
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, ti ...
and the
airport of San Sebastián in the
Gipuzkoa
Gipuzkoa (, , ; es, Guipúzcoa ; french: Guipuscoa) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. Its capital city is Donostia-San Sebastián. Gipuzkoa shares borders with the French depa ...
province of the
Basque Country, in north-eastern
Spain
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. The border between the two countries passes through the Bidasoa estuary. It is an important area for bird-watching.
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The name may, by extension, be applied to the whole body of water between the French and Spanish sides.][ The coastal marshes on the Spanish side have been designated as a protected Ramsar site since 2002.]
References
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Landforms of Pyrénées-Atlantiques
Gipuzkoa
Bays of Metropolitan France
Ramsar sites in Spain