The Cerca de Villaño ( eu, Villañoko esparrua) is a small exclave belonging to Orduña, itself an exclave of

Biscay Biscay (; eu, Bizkaia ; es, Vizcaya ) is a province of Spain and a historical territory of the Basque Country, heir of the ancient Lordship of Biscay, lying on the south shore of the eponymous bay. The capital and largest city is Bilbao. B ...

(a province of the Basque Country,

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). It is located in Villaño, a hamlet in Valle de Losa,

Burgos Burgos () is a city in Spain located in the autonomous community of Castile and León. It is the capital and most populated municipality of the province of Burgos. Burgos is situated in the north of the Iberian Peninsula, on the confluence of ...

. Its area and limits aren't known with certainty, and due to its small size and obscurity it isn't shown in most maps. The early history of the enclave is unclear, but it was part of Orduña by the early sixteenth century. The municipal authorities of Orduña used to visit the exclave regularly until 1951 in order to check the border markers. Around the same time, in 1950, the few inhabitants of the enclave were registered as inhabitants of Valle de Losa, and the exclave fell into obscurity. In 2015, a member of the ''

Juntas Generales The Juntas Generales (General Councils, Batzar Nagusiak in Basque) are representative assemblies in the Southern Basque Country that go back to the 14th century. Trask, L. ''The History of Basque'' Routledge: 1997 They are the Foral Parliament ...

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requested the Biscayan government to reaffirm the exclave's status as part of Biscay, but his proposal was rejected. In 2022, the municipality of Orduña started the procedures to survey the exclave and include it in its urban planning documentation.

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