Ortuella

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Ortuella
Municipality
View from Serantes
Coat of arms
Ortuella Location of Ortuella within the Basque Country
Coordinates: 43°18′37″N 3°3′25″W / 43.31028°N 3.05694°W / 43.31028; -3.05694
Country	Spain
Autonomous community	Basque Country
Province	Biscay
Comarca	Greater Bilbao
Segregated	1901
Government
• Alcalde	Oskar Martínez Zamora (EAJ-PNV)
Area
• Total	7.65 km2 (2.95 sq mi)
Elevation	66 m (217 ft)
Population  (2018)[1]
• Total	8,360
• Density	1,100/km2 (2,800/sq mi)
Demonym	ortuellatarra
Time zone	UTC+1 (CET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+2 (CEST)
Postal code	48530
Official language(s)	Basque
Website	Official website

Ortuella is a town and municipality located in the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain.

Nowadays part of the Greater Bilbao region, until the beginning of the 19th century it was integrated in the Valley of Somorrostro of the Encartaciones next to the Santurtzi. In 1901 the locality segregated from the Council of the Santurtzi, those days happening to denominate the Santurce-Ortuella. This segregation was motivated by an increase of population due to the mining height of end of the 19th century, being the district of Ortuella the one of greater population in the council. In the 1980s, and by means of the resolution of 27 March 1981, the name of the municipality definitively lost the term "Santurce", simply being "Ortuella", which was the usual name used by their citizens.

Ortuella was the site of a deadly explosion at the Marcelino Ugalde Primary School on 23 October 1980 that killed 50 schoolchildren and 14 adults, and injured killed and injured an additional 128.^[2][3]

The patron saint of Ortuella is Saint Felix of Cantalica (18 May), the name of the main church of the municipality.

Ortuella is administratively divided into 6 neighborhoods or wards:^[4]

• Cadegal (Pop. 46)
• Orconera (Pop. 39)
• Nocedal (Pop. 204)
• Ortuella (Pop. 7.475)
• Triano (Pop. 10)
• Urioste (Pop. 803)

• Joseba Agirre, footballer
• José Arechavaleta, botanist
• Pepeo Calleja, footballer
• Florencio Constantino, operatic tenor
• Juan Antonio Ipiña, football manager

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ortuella.

• ORTUELLA in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa) (in Spanish)
• Official website (in Spanish and Basque)

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