Santurtzi

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Image:PortofBilbao.jpg Santurtzi (Spanish: Santurce; Basque: Santurtzi) is a port town in the province of Biscay, in the autonomous community of Basque Country, Spain. It is located near the mouth of the Nervión river, in its left bank, 14km downriver from Bilbao and forms part of the Greater Bilbao agglomeration. It has a population of 47,155 (2005).

[edit] Geography

Santurtzi has a very rough orography although excluding Mount Serantes ( 446m) - one of its most symbolic topographic elements , it does not present high altitude, locating but the significant ones in spurs of the own Serantes: The Mallet (245m) and the Fortified heights (123 and 106m). Its relief registers within the north flank of the anticlinal of Biscay. It is a relief of structural type corresponding to a series of materials of the Cretaceous period (limestone) throughout Punta Lucero-Serantes smoothly inclined towards the Estuary of Bilbao.

The climate in Santurtzi is under the influence of the humid oceanic climate. The temperatures are moderate throughout the year, with more frequent rains in spring and autumn, winters are benign and summers to not excessively warm. The average temperature in summer is of 20 ºC (70ª F) and of 8 ºC (48ª F) in winter.

[edit] Tourism

The beauty of the landscape and the quality of the gastronomy along with the hospitality of the Santurtziarrak are some of the attractions which the visitor can enjoy. Santurtzi is a marine town that has known to conserve its traditions in spite of its great growth, the life in this Council, it is marked by the sea, that it inspires its work and its leisure, the fishing and the rowing boat races and the celebrations of the Virgin of the Carmen maintain their roots alive. Gastronomy is based on fish specially the sardines.

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