Urduña/Orduña (; ) is an

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and

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of 4,232 inhabitants located in the province of

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, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, in the North of

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Geography

The municipality is an

of Biscay, surrounded entirely by the Basque province of

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and the

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, part of

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. It is located in a plain in the highest part of the

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river valley, at the foot of the Sierra Salvada mountains. The municipality contains the small exclave of Cerca de Villaño, surrounded by the neighbouring

. Orduña is the final station of the

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line C-3 that links the town with

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Notable people

Juan de Garay Juan de Garay (1528–1583) was a Spanish conquistador. Garay's birthplace is disputed. Some say it was in the city of Junta de Villalba de Losa in Castile, while others argue he was born in the area of Orduña (Basque Country). There's ...

(1528–1583), conquistador, governor, founder of

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and Santa Fe * Celestino Alcocer Valderrama (1855-1924), politician, Cortes deputy * Alberto Alcocer y Ribacoba (1886–1957), politician, mayor of Madrid and secretary general of the

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Iván Fandiño Iván Fandiño Barros (; 29 September 1980 – 17 June 2017) was a Spanish bullfighter. He died when a bull named Provechito gored him during a bullfight at Arènes Maurice-Lauche, the bullring in Aire-sur-l'Adour in the Southern France, south ...

(1980–2017), bullfighter *

Juan Ortiz de Zárate Juan Ortiz de Zárate (c. 1521 Orduña, Biscay, Spain – 1575 Asunción, Paraguay) was a Spanish Basque explorer and conquistador. He journeyed to the Americas as a teenager, where he took part in the conquest of Peru under Diego de Almagro. ...

(1521-1575), conquistador

References

External links

* http://www.orduna.org: Local
ORDUÑA in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)

Apuntaciones históricas de la Ciudad de Orduña. José Antonio de Armona y Murga, 1789
Municipalities in Biscay Enclaves and exclaves Arratia-Nerbioi {{basqueCountry-geo-stub