Portugalete
Portugalete is a town lying to the west of Bilbao in the province of Biscay in the Autonomous Community of the Basque Country, northern Spain. The town has 45,294 inhabitants as of 2021 and is part of Bilbao's metropolitan area.- Type: Town with 44,800 residents
- Description: human settlement in Greater Bilbao, Biscay, Basque Country, Spain
- Postal code: 48920
Places of Interest
Highlights include Vizcaya Bridge and Casa Torre de Salazar.
Vizcaya Bridge
Photo: Ebaki, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Vizcaya Bridge is a transporter bridge that links the towns of Portugalete and Las Arenas in the Biscay province of Spain, crossing the mouth of the Nervion River.
Portugalete
Metro station
Photo: José Sáez, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Portugalete is a station on line 2 of the Bilbao metro. It is located in central Portugalete. Opening on 20 January 2007, it acted as the northern terminus of the line until the line was extended to Santurtzi.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Las Arenas and Azeta.
Las Arenas
Suburb
Photo: Spike, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Areeta is a neighbourhood of Getxo. It is an affluent residential area that was built over the sands of a beach where the Gobela Creek died into a diffuse delta at the mouth of the Estuary of Bilbao in the early 20th century.
Portugalete
- Categories: municipality of Spain, city, and locality
- Location: Portugalete, Biscay, Basque Country, Northern Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Latitude
43.31897° or 43° 19′ 8″ northLongitude
-3.01986° or 3° 1′ 12″ westPopulation
44,800Elevation
49 metres (161 feet)United Nations Location Code
ES POROpen location code
8CMR8X9J+H3OpenStreetMap ID
node 283471163OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Albanian to Welsh—“Portugalete” goes by many names.
- Albanian: “Portugalete”
- Arabic: “بورتغاليتي”
- Aragonese: “Portugalete”
- Armenian: “Պորտուգալետե”
- Asturian: “Portugalete”
- Basque: “Portu”
- Basque: “Portugalete”
- Belarusian: “Партугалетэ”
- Breton: “Portugalete”
- Catalan: “Portugalete”
- Cebuano: “Portugalete”
- Chechen: “Португалете”
- Chinese: “波图加莱特”
- Chinese: “波圖加萊特”
- Chinese: “波尔图加莱特”
- Czech: “Portugalete”
- Dutch: “Portugalete”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بورتجاليتى”
- Esperanto: “Portugaleto”
- French: “Portugalete”
- Galician: “Portugalete, Biscaia”
- Galician: “Portugalete”
- Georgian: “პორტუგალეტე”
- German: “Portugalete”
- Greek: “Πορτουγαλέτε”
- Hebrew: “פורטוגלטה”
- Hungarian: “Portugalete”
- Irish: “Portugalete”
- Italian: “Portugalete”
- Japanese: “ポルトゥガレテ”
- Ladin: “Portugalete”
- Latin: “Portus Gallorum”
- Lithuanian: “Portugaletė”
- Lombard: “Portugalete”
- Luxembourgish: “Portugalete”
- Malagasy: “Portugalete”
- Malay: “Portugalete”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Portugalete”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Portugalete”
- Persian: “پورتوگالته”
- Polish: “Portugalete”
- Portuguese: “Portugalete”
- Russian: “Португалете”
- Scots: “Portugalete”
- Serbian: “Португалете”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Portugalete”
- Slovenian: “Portugalete”
- South Azerbaijani: “پورتوقالته”
- Spanish: “la villa jarrillera”
- Spanish: “Portu”
- Spanish: “Portugalete”
- Swedish: “Portugalete”
- Tatar: “Португалете”
- Turkish: “Portugalete”
- Ukrainian: “Португалете”
- Uzbek: “Portugalete”
- Venetian: “Portugalete”
- Waray (Philippines): “Portugalete”
- Welsh: “Portugalete”
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