1. LOGO
Industry in the Basque
Country
Structure and location
Maite Fresnillo

2. Industry in the Basque Country
1 An industrial region
2 Basque industry’s structure
3 Basque industry’s location
4 Continuity and change
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3. Introduction
New industrialization after the
crisis of the 70s
Conservation of some
constitutive elements of the
industries
Basque country has suffered the
following evolution:
 Old industrialization
 Deep crisis in the 70s and 80s
 Harsh re-structuring
 Recovery
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4. Industrial region: terciarization
1 2 3
Development of Development of New
services of high tourism and alternatives to
quality new substitute the
technological traditional ones,
spaces of
reduced
environmental
impact
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5. Industrial region
Activities
in crisis
-Basic metallic Consequences:
-Metallic -Loss of employment
-Closing of factories
constructions -Important influence
-Machinery on urban spaces.
-Transport
material
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6. Industrial region
Biggest part in the Spanish
industrial employment
Highest number of
occupied population
Employment
Important industrial density:
only overcome by Madrid
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7. Industrial region
Home electrical
appliances 40%
Metallic
melting 50 %
Equipment
industries
Printing
forge 65 % Machine-
tools 78 %
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8. Industrial structure
Vizcaya Guipuzcoa Alava
-It has the
-High industrial highest
-Lowest level of
concentration industrial
industrial
- Related to iron concentration
employments
industry - More
-Concentration
- Dominium of equilibrated
around Vitoria
big size distribution
- Macro-
- Concentrated - Transversal
cephalic
around Bilbao valleys and
Donostialdea
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9. Structure
Size of industries
Coastal
location Employment
regularly
distributed
Bigger
Characteristics
company,
fewer number
Dominium
of small
companies
Few big
companies
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10. Localization
Industrial
areasneed of
B
industrial soil
Importance of A C Creation of
Vizcaya (Bilbao) technological
parks
Modification
after 70s
Changes in E D Industrialization
traditional of rural areas
location
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11. Location
1 2 3
High density Medium density Low industrial
regions: regions: density:
-Affected by re- -Goierri, Urola-Coast -Rest of the regions
structuring and Tolosa -Scarce industrial
-Nervion’s left margin -Medium and small activity
-Head of many companies -Some related to
companies -Also in Plencia- food industry.
-Metallurgic Munguia, and
-Expands to: Cantabrica region in
Duranguesado, Deva, Alava
Donostialdea
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13. Continuity and change
 Reduction of big industry in benefit of
medium and small
 Importance of metallic industry
 Transformation in location
 Industrial axes located in the traditional
areas:
 Bilbao and Duranguesado
 Guipuzcoan valleys and Donostialdea
 Vitoria
 Loss of importance of some regions
 Change of activities:
 Services
 Housing
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