Gipuzkoa ( , ; ; ) 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 department of

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at the northeast, with the province and autonomous community of

Navarre Navarre ( ; ; ), officially the Chartered Community of Navarre, is a landlocked foral autonomous community and province in northern Spain, bordering the Basque Autonomous Community, La Rioja, and Aragon in Spain and New Aquitaine in France. ...

at east,

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at west,

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at southwest and the

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to its north. It is located at the easternmost extreme of the Cantabric Sea, in the Bay of Biscay. It has of coastline. With a total area of , Gipuzkoa is the smallest province of Spain. The province has 89

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and a population of 720,592 inhabitants (2018), from which more than half live in the Donostia-San Sebastián metropolitan area. Apart from the capital, other important cities are

Irun Irun (, ) is a town of the Bidasoaldea region in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Autonomous Community, Spain. History It lies on the foundations of the ancient Oiasso, cited as a Roman- Vasconic town. During the Spanish Civil War, ...

Errenteria Errenteria (, ) is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Autonomous Community, in the north of Spain, near the French border. The river Oiartzun (river), Oiartzun cuts its way through the ...

Zarautz Zarautz (, ) is a coastal town located in central Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, in Spain. It is bordered by Aia to the east and the south and Getaria, Gipuzkoa, Getaria to the west, located about west of San Sebastián, Donostia/San Sebastián. It ha ...

, Mondragón, Eibar, Hondarribia, Oñati, Tolosa, Beasain and

Pasaia Pasaia () is a town and municipality located in the province of Gipuzkoa in the Basque Autonomous Community of northern Spain. It is a fishing community, commercial port and the birthplace of the famous admiral Blas de Lezo and of the fashion de ...

. Gipuzkoa is the province of the Basque Country in which the

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is the most extensively used since 49.1% of its population spoke Basque in 2006.

Etymology

The first recorded name of the province was ''Ipuscoa'' in a document from the year 1025. During the following years, and in various documents, several similar names appear, such as ''Ipuzcoa'', ''Ipuçcha'', ''Ipuzka'', among others. The full etymology the word Gipuzkoa has not been fully ascertained, but links have been made with the Basque word , containing the root which is related to the word (north), (back) and (tale). According to this, ''ipuzko'' (one of the several first known denominations) might refer to something "to the north" or "in the north".

Denominations

''Gipuzkoa''

Gipuzkoa is the

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spelling recommended by the Royal Academy of the Basque Language, and it is commonly used in official documents in that language. The Basque spelling is also mandatory in official texts from the various Spanish public administrations, even in documents written in Spanish. It is the spelling most frequently used by the Spanish-language media in the Basque Country. It is also the spelling used in the Basque version of the Spanish constitution and in the Basque version of the

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. Gipuzkoa is also the only official spelling approved for the historical territory by the Juntas Generales of the province.

''Guipúzcoa''

''Guipúzcoa'' is the spelling in Spanish, and it has been determined by the

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as being the only correct use outside official Spanish documents in which the Basque spelling is mandatory.The change in the official Spanish policy regarding the naming of Gipuzkoa dates only from 2011, and the last (and first) edition of the Panhispanic dictionary of doubts dates from 2005. The specific case of the spelling of ''Guipúzcoa'' is therefore not included. However, the articles fo
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indicate that will be the criterion followed for the Guipúzcoa article in the edition that is currently under elaboration. It is also the Spanish spelling used in the Spanish version of the Constitution and in the Spanish version of the Statute of Autonomy of the Basque Country.

Geography and demographics

At Gipuzkoa is the smallest province in Spain. The province has 88

and 709,607 inhabitants (2011), a quarter of whom live in the capital,

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. Other important towns are

, Arrasate, Oñati with an old university, Eibar, Tolosa which was the provincial capital for a short time, Beasain,

, the main port and Hondarribia, an old fort town across from the French Atlantic coast. Gipuzkoa is hilly and green linking mountain and sea, and heavily populated with numerous urban nuclei that dot the whole territory. The conspicuous presence of hills and rugged terrain has added to a special leaning towards

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, nature and mountains on the part of Gipuzkoans. Some mountains have an emblematic or iconic significance in the local tradition, their summits being topped with crosses, memorials and mountaineer postboxes. In addition,

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s which have gradually lost their former religious zeal and taken on a more secular slant are sometimes held to their summits. Some renowned mountains are Aiako Harria, Hernio, Txindoki, Aizkorri and Izarraitz, amongst others. Algorri Flysch

The Aralar Natural Park is a conservation area on the border of Gipuzkoa and Navarre in the Aralar Range. The rivers of Gipuzkoa are distinctly different from other

rivers. They arise in the hilly

inland landscape (''Basque Mountains''), flow in a south- north direction, forming close, narrow valleys before joining the ocean. The rivers extend for a short length with only a small fluctuation in the volume of water thanks to the stable rainfall all year round, and they show an abrupt drop between origin and mouth as far as the length of the river is concerned. From west to east the rivers are the Deba, Urola, Oria, Urumea, Oiartzun and Bidasoa. Except for a narrow strip extending east from the hamlet ''Otzaurte'' ( Zegama) and the tunnel of San Adrian, the province drains its waters to the Atlantic basin.

Population development

The historical population is given in the following chart: Colors= id:lightgrey value:gray(0.9) id:darkgrey value:gray(0.7) id:sfondo value:rgb(1,1,1) ImageSize = width:700 height:auto barincrement:28 PlotArea = left:40 bottom:40 top:20 right:20 DateFormat = x.y Period = from:0 till:770 TimeAxis = orientation:horizontal AlignBars = late ScaleMajor = gridcolor:darkgrey increment:100 start:0 ScaleMinor = gridcolor:lightgrey increment:50 start:0 BackgroundColors = canvas:sfondo PlotData= color:skyblue width:20 shift:(-50,-5) fontsize:M anchor:till bar:1877 from:0 till:170 text:170,209 bar:1887 from:0 till:181 text:181,149 bar:1900 from:0 till:197 text:196,531 bar:1910 from:0 till:221 text:221,427 bar:1920 from:0 till:261 text:260,504 bar:1930 from:0 till:296 text:296,269 bar:1940 from:0 till:325 text:325,003 bar:1950 from:0 till:371 text:371,024 bar:1960 from:0 till:474 text:473,901 bar:1970 from:0 till:626 text:626,049 bar:1980 from:0 till:695 text:694,681 bar:1990 from:0 till:676 text:676,488 bar:2000 from:0 till:674 text:673,563 bar:2010 from:0 till:708 text:708,425 bar:2020 from:0 till:727 text:727,121 TextData= pos:(35,20) fontsize:M text:"Number bar: Thousand inhabitants; Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INE "

Climate

Gipuzkoa has an

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, characterized by its low variation in temperature, with cool summers, moderate winters and abundant rain throughout the year. The climate promotes the growth of lush vegetation. The area is windy for most of the year with those from the north-northwest bringing significant moisture from the ocean. Rainfall is abundant due to the wind direction and hilly region of the province, with rainfall ranging between 1200 and 1700 mm per year. Cloud cover is also high. The climate is oceanic, with few thermal fluctuations and abundant rainfall (1400 mm per year). The rainfall and relief have a hydrography defined by rivers of short length, although large and regular; The main ones are the Bidasoa, the Oyarzun, the Urumea, the Oria, the Urola and the Deva. Their agricultural utility, as a consequence of the rainfall, is minimal, although they have been the basis of an industry that has ended up contaminating its waters. The predominant vegetation, also conditioned by the climate, is the boreal forest, with deciduous species that alternate with meadows.

Infrastructure

The region's communication layout is in step with its geographical features, with the main lines of infrastructure along a north -south axis up to recent times along the rivers heading to the ocean. Accordingly, the inland Way of St. James, i.e. the Tunnel Route penetrated the province via

and turned south-west along the Oria River towards the provincial limits at the tunnel of San Adrian. This stretch was in operation up to 1765 when the Royal Road moved to the western Deba Valley. A minor St. James route crossed Gipuzkoa east to west along the coast. Currently, the main road cutting through Gipuzkoa largely follows that layout, i.e. the N-1 E-5 from Irun to Donostia and on to Altsasu all along the Oria River for the most part (gateway to Navarre through the pass of Etxegarate). Also, the major Irun-Madrid railway runs close to the river up to its very origin on the slopes of Aizkorri at train stop Otzaurte in Zegama. By 1973 engineering works for the Bilbao-Behobia A-8 E-70 motorway had been completed, with the new road cutting across the valleys east to west and turning into the main axis between Donostia and Bilbao, besides enabling heavy load traffic to access the west and south of Spain as a toll road. The regional railway network Euskotren Trena also follows along the coast from east to west, while it proves impractical for long distance on the grounds of its tortuous layout and as it serves small towns. The railway network reaches the border town Hendaia before it changes to

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. Within the Donostialdea region, the San Sebastián Metro provides service. The stretch of the A-15 motorway serving Gipuzkoa and Pamplona opened in 1995 embroiled in controversy under protest and an attack campaign led by ecologists, Basque leftist nationalists and eventually ETA. Conflict resolved after a deal about the definitive layout was struck. In January 2010, following a scheme drawn up by the regional government of Gipuzkoa to improve provisions for the ever-increasing road traffic, the Maltzaga-Urbina AP-1 motorway stretch leading to Gasteiz was completed, providing likewise access to the industrial areas of Arrasate and Bergara, the gateway to

by village Landa. AP-1 and N-1 E-5 are connected by a highway east to west from Bergara and Beasain. European traffic to south of Spain avoids Donostia's metropolitan area by means of the southern outer road ring. The AVE

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is currently under construction, with an Y-type layout and links to the SNCF network in Hendaia (NE), Vitoria (SE), Bilbao (W) and

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(S) to be completed by 2022. Contractors were appointed, works are in place although past schedule, while strong opposition (ecologists, Basque leftist nationalists,...) and serious financial tensions made its future uncertain. The only airport in Gipuzkoa serving just domestic flights is the San Sebastian Airport located in Hondarribia, while the air transportation needs are usually served by the nearby

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and

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airports.

Cultural traits

Gipuzkera, a

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of the

spoken in most of the region, shows a considerable vitality and holds a prominent position among other dialects. A 2021 survey found that 51.8% of the population spoke Basque. The Basque cultural element is apparent, including traditional dances and singing, bertsolaritza, trikiti and txistu music, baserris dotting the rural landscape, town festivals, and its signature heavy sculptures (stone, steel, iron) from the industrial tradition, all blending with the latest Basque, Spanish and international pop culture events and design trends centred in major urban areas ( Donostia, Tolosa, etc.). Traditionally a Catholic province, its patron

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s are the

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Ignatius of Loyola Ignatius of Loyola ( ; ; ; ; born Íñigo López de Oñaz y Loyola; – 31 July 1556), venerated as Saint Ignatius of Loyola, was a Basque Spaniard Catholic priest and theologian, who, with six companions, founded the religious order of the S ...

, a native of this province born in the neighborhood of Loyola ( Azpeitia), and Our Lady of Arantzazu. The region has produced many famous Basque athletes for example: Jose Maria Olazabal (golfer), José Ángel Iribar, Mikel Arteta and

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(footballers), Abraham Olano and Domingo Perurena (cyclists), Edurne Pasaban and Alberto Iñurrategi (mountaineers), Iñaki Urdangarin (handball player), Maite Zúñiga (runner) and Paulino Uzcudun (boxer). Professional tennis player

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's father is also a native of Gipuzkoa.

Notable natives and residents

* Abraham Olano, road racing cyclist, 1995 world road champion, 1998 world time trial champion *

Ainhoa Arteta Ainhoa Arteta Ibarrolaburu, better known as Ainhoa Arteta (born 24 September 1964), is a Spanish soprano. Personal life and training Ainhoa Arteta was born on 24 September 1964 in Tolosa, Gipuzkoa. Her father, José Ramón Arteta, was foun ...

, soprano * Alberto Iñurrategi, mountaineer * Andoni Iraola Sagarna, former footballer and current manager of

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, explorer and navigator * Asier Illarramendi, footballer * Bernardo Atxaga, writer * Blas de Lezo, Admiral famed for the

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* Cosme Damián de Churruca y Elorza, Admiral of the Royal Spanish Armada * Cristóbal Balenciaga, fashion designer * Cristóbal de Oñate, explorer, conquistador and colonial official in

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* Domingo Martínez de Irala, conquistador *

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, sculptor * Edurne Pasaban, mountaineer * Fernando de Villanueva (died 1679), governor of Spanish New Mexico between 1665 and 1668. *

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, philosopher * Francisco de Ibarra, explorer, conquistador and the founder of the city of

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* Gabriel de Mendizábal Iraeta, General Officer who fought in the

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Ignacio Zuloaga Ignacio Zuloaga y Zabaleta (July 26, 1870October 31, 1945) was a Spanish painter, born in Eibar, Guipuzcoa, near the monastery of Loyola. Family He was the son of metalworker and damascening, damascener Plácido Zuloaga and grandson of the orga ...

, painter * Irene Paredes, footballer * Iker Martínez de Lizarduy Lizarribar, Olympic sailor * Jorge Oteiza, sculptor * José de Urrutia, Explorer and settler of Texas in the 1600s *

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, golfer and winner of Masters tournament * Jose Miguel Barandiaran, anthropologist, paleontologist * Josune Bereziartu, rock climber *

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, philosopher * Juan de Tolosa, explorer, conquistador and one of the founders of

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* Juan de Urbieta, soldier who captured king

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* Juan Mari Arzak, chef * Juan Sebastián Elcano, first to circumnavigate the world, 1522 * Julen Lopetegui, football manager and former player. * Karlos Arguiñano, chef, TV presenter and producer, and

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businessman * Katalina Erauso, nun and soldier in the 17th century * Koldo Mitxelena, linguist *

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* Luis Arconada, footballer * Luis Mariano, tenor * Mariano Juaristi ''Atano III'', Basque-pelota player * Martín Berasategui, chef * Martín de Murúa, friar and chronicler, made the earliest illustrated history of

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. * Martín Ignacio de Loyola, Franciscan friar and missionary, first person to complete the world circumnavigation twice - first time in both eastwards and westwards. * Miguel de Oquendo y Segura, a Spanish admiral, second in command of the

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, navigator and Governor of

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* Mikel Arteta, former footballer and current manager of

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, fashion designer * Pako Ayestarán, Spanish football manager, former Head Coach of

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. * Pío Baroja y Nessi, writer * San Ignacio de Loyola, saint and founder of the

* Sta. Cándida María de Jesús, saint and founder of the Congregation of the Hijas de Jesús * Sto. Domingo Ibáñez de Erquicia, Dominican Saint, Martyr * Tirso de Olazábal, Count of Arbelaiz, Politician *

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