The geography of Gallarta

2. LOCATION OF GALLARTA.
o Abanto-Zierbena is the name of our municipality.
o It belongs to the province of Biscay, in the Autonomous
Community of the Basque Country.

3. About our town…
Maite Etxebarria Azpiolea.
At present, ABANTO-ZIERBENA is
administratively divided into
neighbourhoods or wards. One
of them is GALLARTA, where
our Dolores Ibarruri high school is
located.
Currently, our mayor is Maite
Etxebarria Azpiolea.

4. POPULATION
1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2006 2008 2010 2012
8.417 8.812 8.989 9.111 9.315 9.608 9.608 9.724 9.708
1920 1910 1900 1897 1887 1877 1860 1857
9.679 9.053 8.337 7.685 5.715 2.075 1.227 1.172

5. This is the coat of arms of our
town.
This is our flag.

6. BOUNDARIES OF GALLARTA.
Abanto- Zierbena is surrounded by different towns.

7. Ortuella in the east.
Galdames in the south
Muskiz in the west
Santurtzi in the north

8. NEAR GALLARTA…
Near Gallarta, there is a mountain called Serantes. It is
451metres high. The top of the mountain is located in a
nearby town called Santurtzi, on the left side of Bilbao
estuary.
Serantes is surrounded by an important industrial and
mining area

9. THE BEACH
This beach is called “Playa la Arena”. It is 966 metres long and
part of it belongs to Abanto Zierbena and the other to Muskiz.
When the tide is low, it has 343,382 square metres surface.
When the tide is high, it has 86,382 square metres surface.