Santurtzi

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 in the Bilbao Abra bay, near the mouth of the Nervión river, on its left bank, 14 km downriver from Bilbao and forms part of the Greater Bilbao agglomeration. It has a population of 47,320 (2006) and a land area of 6.77 km².

The district of Santurce of the city of San Juan, Puerto Rico derives its name from Santurtzi.

Geography

Santurtzi has a very rough orography although excluding Mount Serantes (452m) - one of its most symbolic topographic elements, it is not at high altitude, the significant heights being spurs of the Serantes: The Mallet (245m) and the Fortified heights (123 and 106m). Its relief is within the north flank of the anticline of Biscay. It is a relief of a structural type corresponding to a series of materials of the Cretaceous period (limestone) throughout Punta Lucero-Serantes smoothly inclined towards the Estuary of Bilbao.

Santurtzi (Metro Bilbao)

Santurtzi is a station of the Line 2 of Metro Bilbao. It is located in the municipality of Santurtzi, in the Greater Bilbao area. The station after is Peñota.

Santurtzi is the southern terminus of the Mamariga Shuttle, which connects the station with the neighborhood of Mamariga using an automatic shuttle.

Services and connections

The station has also connections with BizkaiBus lines A2315, A3115, A3129, A3135, A3142, A3151, A3321, A3332, A3333, A3334, A3335.

Access

The station can be accessed from:

Gerkika Park

Virgen del Mar square (Mamariga exit, through Mamariga Shuttle)

See also

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